After almost two months of war, few places in the Gaza Strip are safe from Israeli bombardment, but Emad Soliman Robaya Robaya refuses to leave the land where he grew up, partly because it is so vital to his music.
Living amid the bombed-out remains of their Rafah apartment, which was destroyed in October, Robaya has stayed in the southern city with his wife and children while so many other Gazans have been displaced.
“If they bomb all of Gaza, I won’t leave it,” he said. “I swear, if I leave this place, I won’t play music … In my space, I
