{{Infobox former Arab villages in Palestine |name=Miska |image=RuinsInMiska.JPG |imgsize=200 |caption=Remains of the village mosque, 2007 |arname=مسكة |meaning= |altSp= |district=tk |latd=32|latm=13|lats=03.53 |longd=34|longm=55|longs=28.92 |population=650 The village, with the exception of a boy's elementary school and a mosque, was destroyed on the orders of Yosef Weitz, a Jewish National Fund official.

On 16 June 1948, Ben-Gurion, almost certainly based on a progress report from Joseph Weitz, noted Miska as one of the Palestinian villages that they had destroyed.

The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village in 1992: "The site is covered with citrus groves; cactuses grow along the perimeter of these groves. The two-room school still stands and is used as housing for the watchmen who guard the orchards. The mosque serves as a storehouse for bales of hay and agricultural tools. The large cement fragments of a demolished enclosure built around the village well are visible. Most of the surrounding land has been planted by Israelis with citrus trees."

The school buildings were destroyed by order of the Israel Land Administration in 2006 following commemoration activities at the site organised by Palestinian Citizens of Israel and Israeli NGO Zochrot.

See also

List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

References

Bibliography

Conder, Claude Reignier and H.H. Kitchener (1881): The Survey of Western Palestine: memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, and archaeology. London:Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. vol 2

Guérin, M. V.: (1868–1880): Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale (Cited in SWP) (Population; p.76, cultivated land; p.126 other land; p. 176)

Pappe, Ilan (1999). The Israel/Palestine Question. Routledge. ISBN 041516947X

External links

Welcome to Miska

Miska from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

Miska by Rami Nashashibi (1996), Center for Research and Documentation of Palestinian Society.

Remembering Miske on Land Day, 2002, by Eitan Reich and Adi Kemmelgren

Nakba Day in Miske, 2002

Nakba Day in Miske, 2003, by Ido Tzvieli

Commemorating Nakba Day, 2005 in Miske

Evening with Sami Michael in Miske, July 20, 2005.

Living signs in the destroyed village of Miske, by Yosefa Mekaitun,

De-Fencing Miske

Reply from the ILA, 2006

Destruction of the Miske village schoolhouse, destroyed July 2006

Miske Schoolhouse Commemoration, 2006

Nakba Day in Miske, April 24, 2007

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Mishka (born Mishka Frith, 1974) is a reggae singer from Bermuda, who released an album on Creation Records in 1999, and had a hit single in the UK with "Give You All The Love".

Biography

Born to a Bermudian father and Nova Scotian mother, Mishka spent his childhood on his parents' yacht sailing around the Caribbean along with his sister, Heather, aka Heather Nova, subsequently attending school in Canada. In 1996 his demo of "Give You All The Love" led to Alan McGee (who had heard him while holidaying in the Caribbean) signing Mishka to his Creation label the following year, releasing the track as a single in 1999 and with a self-titled debut album following the same year.

In 2006 he signed to Matthew McConaughey's j.k. livin' label, and his album Above the Bones was the first release on the label.

In 2009, Mishka toured alongside the likes of Xavier Rudd and Birds of Wales throughout North America, including at the 2009 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

In March 2010, Mishka released top selling reggae CD 'Talk About' with one of the hit singles featuring the famous Willie Nelson in the chorus of 'Homegrown'.

Discography

Mishka (1999) (Creation Records/Sony Music)

In Dub - compilation (2000) (Sony Music)

One Tree (2005) (Cornerstone RAS)

Above the Bones (2009) (j.k. livin')

Talk About (2010) (j.k. livin') (released)

References

External links

Official website

Kurutz, Steve "[ Mishka Review]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation

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Name	Alanis Morissette
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Alanis Nadine Morissette
Born	June 01, 1974
Origin	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Instrument	Piano, guitar, flute, harmonica, vocals
Genre	Alternative rockPop rockPost-grunge
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress, record producer
Voice type	Mezzo-soprano
Years active	1987–present
Label	MCA Records Canada, Maverick, Warner Bros.
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Spouse	Mario "MC Souleye" Treadway
Children	Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway (born December 25, 2010)

Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actress. She has won 16 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award as well as preliminary Academy Award nominee. Morissette began her career in Canada, and as a teenager recorded two dance-pop albums, Alanis and Now Is the Time, under MCA Records Canada. Her worldwide debut album was the rock-influenced Jagged Little Pill, which remains the best-selling debut album by a female artist in the U.S., and the highest selling debut album worldwide, selling more than 30 million units globally. In elementary school she was identified as gifted and attended St. Elizabeth's PGL (program for gifted learners). During her high school years, she attended Immaculata High School and Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa while continuing to pursue a career in the arts. In 1986, she was a cast regular on the CTV/Nickelodeon show, You Can't Do That on Television. In 1987, Morissette competed in the inaugural year of the Rising Star Talent Competition, an amateur contest held in Toronto at the Canadian National Exhibition.

At a New York City audition, Morissette landed a spot on Star Search, a U.S. talent competition on which she used the stage name of Alanis Nadine, her first and middle names. Morissette flew to Los Angeles to appear on the show, but lost after one round. In 1988, Morissette signed a publishing deal with MCA Publishing, which helped to fund her record deal with one of its independent subsidiary labels.

Music career

1990–92: Alanis and Now Is the Time

MCA Records Canada released Morissette's debut album, Alanis, in Canada only in 1991, and Morissette co-wrote every track on the album with its producer, Leslie Howe. By the time it was released, she had dropped her stage name and was credited simply as Alanis. The dance-pop album went platinum, comparisons to Tiffany were also common. During the same period, she was a concert opening act for rapper Vanilla Ice. Morissette wrote the songs with the album's producer, Leslie Howe, and Serge Côté. She said of the album, "people could go, 'Boo, hiss, hiss, this girl's like another Tiffany or whatever.' But the way I look at it ... people will like your next album if it's a suck-ass one." As with Alanis, Now Is the Time was released only in Canada and produced three top forty singles—"An Emotion Away," the minor adult contemporary hit "No Apologies" and "(Change Is) Never a Waste of Time." It sold a little more than half the copies of her first album, however, and was a commercial failure. Eventually she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard. The two wrote and recorded Morissette's first internationally released album, Jagged Little Pill, and by the spring of 1995, she had signed a deal with Maverick Records.

Maverick Records released Jagged Little Pill internationally in 1995. The album was expected only to sell enough for Morissette to make a follow-up, but the situation changed quickly when a DJ from KROQ, an influential Los Angeles modern rock radio station, began playing "You Oughta Know," the album's first single. and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV and MuchMusic.

After the success of "You Oughta Know," the album's other hit singles helped send Jagged Little Pill to the top of the charts. "All I Really Want" and "Hand In My Pocket" followed, but the fourth U.S. single, "Ironic," became Morissette's biggest hit. "You Learn" and "Head over Feet," the fifth and sixth singles, respectively, kept Jagged Little Pill in the top twenty on the Billboard 200 albums chart for more than a year. According to the RIAA, Jagged Little Pill is the best-selling international debut album by a female artist, with more than 16 million copies sold in the U.S.; it sold 33 million worldwide, and produced four RPM chart-toppers: "Hand In My Pocket," "Ironic," "You Learn," and "Head over Feet." The album was also a bestseller in Australia and the United Kingdom. instead, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 469,000 copies—a record, at the time, for the highest first-week sales of an album by a female artist.

Morissette contributed vocals to "Mercy," "Hope," "Innocence," and "Faith," four tracks on Jonathan Elias's project The Prayer Cycle, which was released in 1999. The same year, she released the live acoustic album Alanis Unplugged, which was recorded during her appearance on the television show MTV Unplugged. It featured tracks from her previous two albums alongside four new songs, including "King of Pain" (a cover of The Police song) and "No Pressure over Cappuccino", which Morissette wrote with her main guitar player, Nick Lashley. The recording of the Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie track "That I Would Be Good", released as a single, became a minor hit on hot adult contemporary radio in America. Also in 1999, Morissette released a live version of her song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album Live in the X Lounge II. For her live rendition of "So Pure" at Woodstock '99, she was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards. Morissette released her sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos, in May 2004. She wrote the songs on her own again, and co-produced the album with Tim Thorney and pop music producer John Shanks. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally mixed critical reviews, and it became Morissette's lowest seller in the U.S. The lead single, "Everything", achieved major success on adult top 40 radio in America and was moderately popular elsewhere, particularly in Canada, although it failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Hot 100. Because the first line of the song includes the word asshole, American radio stations refused to play it, and the single version was changed to include the word nightmare instead.

Morissette contributed the song "Wunderkind" to the soundtrack of the film , and it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Morissette performed at a gig for The Nightwatchman, a.k.a. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave fame, at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles in April 2007. The following June, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada", the American and Canadian national anthems, in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Ottawa Senators and the Anaheim Ducks in Ottawa, Ontario.

In April 2010, Morissette released the song "I Remain," which she wrote for the "" soundtrack.

On May 26, 2010, the season finale of American Idol, Morissette performed a duet of her song "You Oughta Know" with Runner Up Crystal Bowersox.

In 1999, Morissette delved into acting again, for the first time since 1993, appearing as God in the Kevin Smith comedy Dogma and contributing the song "Still" to its soundtrack. She also appeared in the hit HBO comedies Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and appeared in the play The Vagina Monologues.

In late 2003, Morissette appeared in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Charlie Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she was innocent. In April 2006, MTV News reported that Morissette would reprise her role in The Exonerated in London from May 23 until May 28.

She expanded her acting credentials with the July 2004 release of the Cole Porter biographical film De-Lovely, in which she performed the song "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" and had a brief role as an anonymous stage performer. In February 2005, she made a guest appearance on the Canadian television show with Dogma co-star Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith.

In 2006, she guest starred in an episode of Lifetime's Lovespring International as a homeless woman named Lucinda, three episodes of FX's Nip/Tuck, playing a lesbian named Poppy, and the mockumentary/documentary Pittsburgh as herself.

It was announced on Morissette's website that she will be starring in a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel Radio Free Albemuth. Morissette will play Sylvia, an ordinary woman in unexpected remission from lymphoma. She said she was a "big fan" of Dick's books, which she called "poetic and expansively imaginative", and said she "feel[s] blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film".

It was announced in May 2009 that Morissette had been cast in at least seven episodes of Weeds, playing Dr. Audra Kitson, a "no-nonsense obstetrician" who treats pregnant main character Nancy Botwin. These episodes aired from June to August 2009.

In early 2010 Morissette returned to the stage, performing a one night engagement in An Oak Tree, an experimental play in Los Angeles. The performance was a sell out. In April 2010 Morissette was confirmed in the cast of Weeds season six, performing again her role as Dr. Audra Kitson.

Personal life

Morissette dated actor and comedian Dave Coulier, 15 years her senior, for a short time in the early 1990s. In a 2008 interview with the Calgary Herald, Coulier claimed to be the ex-boyfriend who inspired Morissette's song "You Oughta Know". Morissette, however, has maintained her silence on the subject of the song.

In 2002, Morissette began dating Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds. The couple announced their engagement in June 2004. In February 2007, representatives for Morissette and Reynolds announced that they had mutually decided to end their engagement. Morissette has stated that her album Flavors of Entanglement was created out of her grief after the break-up, saying that "it was cathartic".

On May 22, 2010, Morissette married rapper Mario “MC Souleye” Treadway in a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home. In August 2010, it was announced that Morissette was pregnant with the couple's first child. Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway, was born on December 25, 2010.

Morissette is a vegan.

Discography

Alanis (1991)

Now Is the Time (1992)

Jagged Little Pill (1995)

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)

Under Rug Swept (2002)

So-Called Chaos (2004)

Flavors of Entanglement (2008)

Videography

Jagged Little Pill, Live (1997)

(2002)

Under Rug Swept DVD Audio (2002)

Feast on Scraps (2002)

VH1 Storytellers: Alanis Morissette (2005)

(2005) — hosted

The Collection CD/DVD Edition (2005)

The Great Warming (2006) — hosted

Filmography

Tours

1991: Vanilla Ice tour (opening act)

1995: Jagged Little Pill/Intellectual Intercourse Tour

1996: Can't Not Tour

1998: Club Tour

1999: Junkie Tour

1999: Junkie Tour Australian Leg (with Garbage)

1999: 5 ½ Weeks Tour (with Tori Amos)

2000: One Tour

2001: Under Rug Swept Tour

2002: Toward Our Union Mended Tour

2003: All I Really Want/Feast on Scraps Tour

2004: So-Called Chaos/Au Naturale Tour (with Barenaked Ladies)

2005: Diamond Wink Tour

2008: Exile in America (with Matchbox Twenty and Mutemath)

2008: Flavors of Entanglement Tour

2009: Flavors of Entanglement South American Tour

Awards and nominations

See also

Canadian rock

Music of Canada

Best selling music artists

List of diamond-certified albums in Canada

List of best-selling albums worldwide

List of best-selling music artists

Further reading

Rock on the Net

Canadian chart positions courtesy of the RPM 100 Singles chart listings.

"Alanis Morissette – Artist Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

[ "Alanis Morissette – Billboard Singles"]. Allmusic. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

"Alanis Morissette". Mariah-charts.com. Retrieved August 23, 2006.

Rock Chicks:The Hottest Female Rockers from the 1960s to Now by Stieven-Taylor, Alison (2007). Sydney. Rockpool Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921295-06-5

References

External links

Official website

Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill Review at Spectrum Fm

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