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PNA President Mahmoud Abbas, in the middle ( Haytham Othman/ MaanImages ) Here is the dead, the dessicated, the sucked-of-all life kufiya, ...

I just finished reading this very illuminating and informative account of Performance , the 1971 film starring Mick Jagger and James Fox. I...

Taqwacore icons The Kominas are going on national tour! Go see them: all reports of live sightings are very positive. This is the latest, up...

Those familiar with the work of the rapper Dead Prez will not be surprised that he is now in Gaza , as part of a 200 person delegation, incl...

Unbelievable! The Prince of Rai, dethroned. Here's a report from the New York Times on July 4 (p. A5): France: Singer Sentenced to Pri...

To my great regret, The Hurt Locker has not yet opened here. Maybe, if NW Arkansas fans of Kathryn Bigelow are lucky, it will open later th...

Here's a trailer for The Time That Remains , the latest film from highly-regarded Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman. It opens in Franc...

Novelist Claire Messud recently attended the Palestine Festival of Literature in the West Bank, and she just published a wonderful essay ab...

This press release was issued today: NEWS RELEASE July 2, 2009 Middle East Research and Information Project 1500 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suit...

Isa TKM is a teenage telenovela from Nickelodeon Latin America, which has been broadcast in several latin American countries, and premiered...

1. Hich Kas , who is perhaps Iran's best known rapper, showed up recently on The Daily Show --in Jason Jones' three-part account of ...

First up, a youtube video from Iranian rapper Salome, whom I learned about courtesy of Mark Levine's Heavy Metal Islam . And thank God I...

The Mother Jones blog published an article about kufiyas this week, by Sonja Sharp, and entitled "Your Intifada: Now Made in China!...

Here's the playlist from my Interzone Radio show, broadcast tonight on KXUA 88.3 FM , from 6-8 PM. Interzone Radio is a world music show...

Jonathan Olley/Summit Entertainment I'm pretty excited to see this photo of director Kathryn Bigelow, kufiya clad, in the New York Times...

1. I've tracked down the context in which renowned Iranian singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian asked the Iranian state radio to stop broadcas...