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Check out his video report here , and his article in the New York Times, yesterday, here . The vid, with performance by Ibrahim Qashush (w...

I've been complaining of late that the role of hip-hop in the "Arab" Spring has been somewhat exaggerated. I plan, or I should...

One of the great stories from the Egyptian revolution is how the "ultras" (fanatical football/soccer fans) of Cairo's two main...

This is from Cairo airport, July 2011 (thanks, NT). You might think this represents an Arab woman in "traditional" fashion, but ...

Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) are on the track of a band called Where's Fluffy. They get to a NYC club, where everyon...

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Like all companies trying to make money in the new Egypt after Mubarak, Coke & Pepsi are trying to ride the revolution. (Thanks to Robin...

It's thanks to Iman that I know about these two songs. The first is by Syrian singer Samih Choukeir. I knew nothing of him before hear...

Kirsten Luce for The New York Times I clipped this article from the New York Times last fall, but it got misplaced in some pile or other, ...

(Niketa Thomas, New York Times , June 19, 2011 ) There's no evidence that Vybz Kartel gives two whits about Palestine's Gaza. Gaza...

Italian designer Walter Albini created this in 1976 (photo from the New York Times , Oct. 12, 2010). Read more about him here . You'd t...

"Beyond the Pale" -- Kelefa Sanneh in The New Yorker , April 12, 2010.

(Photo by Jodi Hilton for The New York Times . Caption: "Kurdish youth commemorated the 1977 May Day massacre last month during a march...

photo: Abdel-Rahman Hussein Meet Yara Mekawie and Ola Saad, performing "abstract minimalist electronica" at the 100 Live Electroni...

Thanks to both @southsouth (who blogs here ) and @wayneandwax (he blogs here ) for informing me about the kufiya in the packaging for Sennhe...

Another Wal-Mart Shareholders' Meeting has descended upon my hometown, Fayetteville. And more pop stars have joined the Wal-Mart Hall of...

Read about it (and watch the vid) in/on the Wall Street Journal here . India is an appealing target for entertainers, as it has 700 million...

"Where I'm From" is off of Digable Planet's first album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) , released in ...

Cleo Cola , a photo by tsweden on Flickr. I found this item at the Walmart Visitors Center (the Walmart museum) in Bentonville. It's pa...

Here's another example of "popular" Orientalism, put to avant-garde and subversive purposes. It's not quite as subversive ...