TAMER NAFAR SOLO Live in AL.Karneval

In 2013, Tamer directed the photography campaign ‘Room No 4’ to protest child arrests in East Jerusalem, and in 2014 DAM released the video ‘Who Are You ’ directed by Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti.
A viral social media campaign accompanied the video for women’s rights in the Arab world. More recently, DAM’s music was featured in the first-ever Palestinian-American TV series, the Netflix hit Mo, by Mo Amer. Tamer starred in the feature film “Junction 48” directed by Udi Aloni and written by Nafar and Oren Moverman. The film won the Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival and Best International Film in Tribeca and was shown in theatres in the US and Europe in 2017.

In 2000, Tamer formed the first Palestinian hip-hop group DAM, along with his brother Suhell Nafar and friend Mahmood Jrere. One of their first singles, “Min Irhabi” (Who’s the Terrorist), was downloaded over a million times, making DAM a household name among youth throughout the Middle East. Rolling Stone in France distributed the song within one of their issues, and the track has been featured on various compilations. The French paper Le Monde called DAM “the spokesman of a new generation”.
Tamer has also used music and art as a tool for social activism. In 2004, DAM released the single ‘Born Here’ followed by a major campaign launched by Nafar to bring awareness to the disparity of Arab communities within Israel. The campaign received impressive media attention and eventually prompted increased investment by the municipality in the Arab sector of Lyd.