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Palestinian schoolgirls Shaza and Rahaf try to bring radical rap music to the classroom.

Series following a year in the life of four schools in Damascus. At Yarmouk Girls' Secondary, Palestinian girls Shaza and Rahaf bring radical rap to the classroom.

Five-part series following a year in the life of four schools in Damascus, a high pressure crossroads in the Middle East.

It concentrates on some remarkable characters finding their way in a country that has never before opened ordinary life up to the cameras in this way, challenges the usual cliches of Arab life and charts the highs and lows of the school year.

Yarmouk Girls' Secondary School sits in the heart of a Palestinian refugee camp that has sat on the southern edge of the city for over sixty years. Nearly all its students are Palestinian, coming of age in a society obsessed with its Palestinian identity and right to return to its homeland. 

Two schoolgirls are breaking the mould. Shaza and Rahaf dream of serving the Palestinian cause though rap music, but their plans put them on a collision course with their parents and traditionalist head teacher as they try to bring their radical rap into the classroom.

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Series following a year in the life of four schools in Damascus

Five-part series following a year in the life of four schools in Damascus, a high pressure crossroads in the Middle East.

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