Showing posts with label Arab Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arab Spring. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Orient-Institut Studies 2 (2013) - Inverted Worlds: Cultural Motion in the Arab Region

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Volume 2 of Orient-Institut Studies (put out by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Orient-Institut Istanbul) recently came out (the jour...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

El Général and Shadia Mansour at BAM, March 9

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 Yes, the El Général from Tunisia. I have been going on for more than a year about how the role of hip-hop in the Arab Spring has been w...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

"Inverted worlds" - Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region

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I haven't had a chance to watch/listen to the papers yet, but I wanted to call this event to readers' attention. In October 2012, th...
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Zeid Hamdan, The People Want the Fall of the Regime

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everywere, says Zeid (ex- Soap Kills ). including Bahrain.
Monday, December 19, 2011

Time Magazine's Person of the Year: The Protester (many in kufiyas)

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You no doubt know that Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2011 is "The Protester." The protester who, for Time , set it a...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Revolutionary Arab Rap: The Blog

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A new blog has been started, which focuses on Arab rap and its relation to the "Arab Spring." While I have been critical of journa...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Kufiya affectation, courtesy shirt woot vs. New York magazine's OWS kufiya

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Shirt.woot launches a new original t-shirt design every midnight(central). This shirt design came in third in the Hipster Animals derby. ...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Hishaam Aidi on US attempts to use hip hop as a foreign policy tool and US media's over-estimation of the role of hip hop in the Arab Spring

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Please see this piece from Al Jazeera English by Hishaam Aidi, Columbia University, on hip-hop in US diplomacy. One of the points Aidi mak...