From Checkpoint 303, a remix/collage/soundscape of John Berger, who left us on 2nd January, reading Ghassan Kanafani's "Letter from Gaza".

Rafeef Ziadeh is a Palestinian performance poet and human rights activist based in London. Following on from her 2014 release Hadeel, the new album We Teach Life is a beautiful development both poetically and musically.

Checkpoint 303 releases 13 new tracks in May, in collaboration with Palestinian singers Jawaher Shofani and Wardeh Sbeit and poet Jihad Sbeit.

The art of the storyteller is to stop the chatter, focus the listener, bypass the propaganda and the politics and reveal the story of the heart.

If you want a global update on the hottest women Hip Hop artists right now, check this generous mixtape from Nomadic Wax.