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I wrote a number of reviews for PopMatters back in the day, and most of them have now disappeared from the PopMatters website. So I've ...

Many are trumpeting the fact that Oscar winner Mahershala Ali ( Moonlight ) is a Muslim, but not noting that he is Ahmadi. For background o...

I highly, highly recommend this article by Ian Nagoski on the Syrian-American violin player Naim Karakand, recently published by Reorient ....

The New York Times published an obituary for the respected, left-wing US jazz artist Fred Ho on April 12, the day he died, by Ben Ratliff....

I just went to see American Hustle , which I truly enjoyed, and of course before I went I had been forewarned that I was going to hear a ver...

I learned of this thanks to a tweet of Teju Cole. As you no doubt know, the great jazz pianist Vijay Iyer just received a prestigious Ma...

Majid Bekkas was in Fayetteville (Arkansas) last week, as part of the Caravanserai program. He performed in a number of venues, together wi...

This is my reproduction of the inner tray card of the Sun Ra CD, "Music from Tomorrow's World" (Atavistic, 2002). L-r: Marsha...

Allah yarhamu . I just got word (via the Sun Ra list), of the death of Salah Ragab. Here's what Ragab's collaborator Hartmut Geerken...