Tuesday, November 28, 2023

My book chapter, "The Kufiya" (2021) available here as a pdf

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 My book chapter, "The Kufiya," published in  Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera,   Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century , ...

My kufiya article from 1992: "Seeing Double: Palestinian/American Histories of the Kufiya"

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 My 1992 article, “Seeing Double: Palestinian-American Histories of the Kufiya ,” published in Michigan Quarterly Review 31(4): 557-577, ca...
Sunday, July 09, 2023

Cheikha Rimitti Scopitone!

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  Watch it here .  This is courtesy the FaceBook page (which I hope you can access) of the Archives Numérique du Cinéma Algérien, who say ab...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

RIP Otis Grand

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  RIP my old pal Otis Grand (on left), who passed away on June 7 in London. Me in the middle, on vocals, on the right, Walid Boustany. W...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Graham Nash, "Oh! Camil (The Winter Soldier)"

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   This is an amazing song (found on Nash's 1973 album, Wild Tales ) that I only just learned about, thanks to a brilliant book I rece...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Forthcoming book chapter: Rai, World Music, and Islam

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Very honored to have been asked to contribute to this great volume, to be published, inshallah, in October. Look for it! My chapter is entit...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Qussay Samak on Naguib Mahfouz in Merip Reports: "a competent novelist of the Cairene petit-bourgeoisie"

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 I love this assessment, from the Egyptian leftist Qussay Samak's article "The Politics of Egyptian Cinema," in Merip Reports ...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Shows I've seen: Grateful Dead, Sly & the Family Stone, Creedence, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, at The Spectrum, Philadelphia, December 6 1968

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 I attended Swarthmore College in 1968-69 and tried to get into Philly as often as the budget and time would allow to see shows. The Spectru...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Soviet Aswan Dam poster

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"Aswan Dam. We are loyal to our friends and always help them in a brotherly unmercenary way." Soviet poster, 1970s. Source here . ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Chile kufiyas, the estallido social (social explosion) of 2019

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From the New Yorker , June 13, 2022, an article on Chile's new leftist president, Gabriel Boric. Read it here .

January 6 kufiya

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  The last video shown yesterday (June 13) at the House January 6 hearings featured several insurrectionists explaining that they were prese...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Aziz Bekkaoui, World Keffiyeh Day

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 Bekkaoui: Morocco-born, Dutch citizen.
Saturday, June 11, 2022

kufiyas and tarbushes in the 1936-39 revolt

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 I've written rather extensively about the push by the Palestinian rebels to impose kufiyas on Palestinian males at the height of the 19...

Aswan: Krushchev visits Egypt

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I very much like this photo of a Nubian (I presume) kid looking at the photo welcoming USSR Premier Nikita Krushchev on his May, 1964 visit ...

Kufiya skirt (via YOOX)

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 I checked YOOX, 8PM, Midiskirts online just now, and this item no longer seems to be available. As is often the case, someone sent this to ...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Trad kufiya (all white) and sole of shoe, spotted in Jerusalem (al-Quds) (Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022)

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Friday, May 20, 2022

In Berlin these days, the police seem to regard the kufiya as a sign of anti-Semitism

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  In Berlin the popo are keeping a close watch on kufiya wearers.  The kufiya, they seem to have determined, is a sign of anti-Semitism. (po...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Kufiyas: illegal in Berlin, on Nakba Day, 2022

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

kufiyaspotting: water protectors (courtesy indiaz.com)

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From 2016, but still relevant. Thanks to E for this. Here's the story:  The #NoDAPL movement is doing more than bringing people from all...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

My uncle's sixth birthday: Swedes and Japanese and Kingsburg, California

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  More on Kingsburg and Swedes and Japanese: Last month I made a trip to Fresno for my mother's brother's 90th birthday. I talked to...