tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15240575.post4639912465047612905..comments2024-02-05T17:15:59.703-06:00Comments on hawgblawg: Best Arabic Songs of 2015, as picked by Nitzan Engelberg & Yaniv Jurkevitch -- and including a great track by Jowan SafadiTed Swedenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05355038670178440138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15240575.post-36308073731488874882016-03-16T10:29:04.911-05:002016-03-16T10:29:04.911-05:00Thanks for the link! I really liked Rachel Shabi&#...Thanks for the link! I really liked Rachel Shabi's book, referred to there...<br />Ted Swedenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05355038670178440138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15240575.post-70505330477111024472016-03-16T05:56:21.065-05:002016-03-16T05:56:21.065-05:00Fantastic blog overall. Love that Sawadi track and...Fantastic blog overall. Love that Sawadi track and video, thanks. Important perhaps to note that Mizrahi and Sephardi are not interchangeable labels. You might like this article here from several years ago in The Guardian which makes several of the same points as Sawadi's lyrics and also points to instances of joint activism http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/apr/01/middle-east-israel-mizrahi (though as usual with such articles the comments after the article are frequently less enlightened).mikeyhttp://mikeyfatboydelgado.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com