Zifzafa is a digital tool that advocates for the sonic self-determination of the people of the occupied Syrian Golan heights (the Jawlanis). It is a video game simulation that seeks to safeguard the auditory life of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights (al Jawlan) against further acts of occupation and dispossession.
In 1967, Israel seized and occupied 70 percent of Jawlan. Approximately 131,000 people living across 344 villages were forcibly displaced from their homes. Those who remained on their land have since endured military occupation.
During the summer of 2023, the residents of the occupied villages of the Jawlan protested against their occupiers on a scale not seen for forty years.