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Siddharta Mitter, writing for MTV Iggy, brilliantly assesses the history and future (if any) of Taqwacore, frequently mis-identified as ...

From Visualizing Palestine . Great teaching tool!

New Yorker Films A review in the New York Times (February 2, 2012) of Straub and Huillet's 1975 film Moses and Aaron reminded me ...

Check out this, er, surprising vid, featuring respected British reggae artist Maxi Priest. The kufiya he is wearing is the record label ...

At least one of the fifty some vets of Afghanistan and Iraq who t ossed away their medals on Sunday, May  20, as part of the anti-NATO d...

1. Via rupture's Mudd Up!, Sufi Plug Ins . an interdisciplinary project dedicated to exploring non-western & poetic notions of sou...

source On the occasion of Facebook's IPO, today, May 18, 2012, I want to share something I came across just last night, from an exc...

From Layla Al-Zubaidi, writing in the London Review of Books : Since the uprising began, every village has come up with its own dabke, a t...

Journalist writing Rachel Shabi is an Iraqi Jew, born in Israel to parents who migrated there from Iraq in the early fifties and then moved ...

Gretchen Reynolds in The New York Times : In an inspiring study being published next month in Diabetes Care, scientists at the Baker I...

This is a gorgeous and moving set of photos of Gaza surfers from Andrew McConnell. There are 23 surfers there who own boards, and other sur...

Dan Walsh, who runs the amazing Palestine Poster Project Archive, has very helpfully put together all the kufiya posters in the collection, ...

Back in 2007, Lauren Bush was spotted wearing a kufiya . More recently, she has been promoting a designer (feed)bag, the proceeds of the s...

Pakistani novelist Nadeem Aslam, who now lives in North England: ' After 9/11 happened...many writers in Britain and Aerica said t...

In the office of the French Socialist Party in Cergy, a Paris suburb (Corentin Fohlen for The New York Times) This photo appears in t...

Sayed Darwish (picture courtesy of the Friends of Sayyid Darwish Association; found here ) From a report in Egypt Independent on yeste...

from Torie Rose DeGhett, writing in The Guardian on USA tax day. (I posted previously -- last night! -- on al-Haqed here .) Abdelhak ...

This is the cover of issue two of a new monthly gay publication out of Tunisia. Check out Gayday 's online site . I guess that the ...

Al-Haqed ("The Vengeful One"), charged on Friday March 30 with insulting the monarchy, for his song, Kilab al-Dawla (Dogs of the S...