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This is the story of a walz in three-quarter time which is fast becoming the rallying song of Arab youth. ‘Telk Qadeya’ is the Egyptian rock group Cairokee ’s latest single, ‘with a twist’ as they put it. It was issued on 30 November 2023, nearly two months after the start of the genocidal war on Gaza. It was announced on the group’s official accounts very soberly, with no grandiloquent proclamations. But the song has had over a million views on YouTube alone and has been available since the end of November on the Lebanese channel Al-Maya deem, illustrated with videos of the Gaza bombings. Whi…

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