Adam Valen Levinson – a Jewish college grad from Philadelphia with a quirky sense of humor – visits 13 countries in the Middle East to see what is really happening in the regi…
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“The Band’s Visit” is a light-hearted musical comedy about ordinary people from countries in conflict connecting and touching each other’s lives free of religious and politica…
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Readers familiar with the Coleman Barks versions of Rumi’s work think of Rumi as a man who deftly celebrated love’s ecstasies…and he did. To imagine, however, that Rumi wrote…
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Fatima al-Fihri’s gift to her adopted city was extremely generous, but the act of giving was far from unique. At the time, women participated along with men in Islam’s custom…
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It’s the late 1990’s, and Algeria has fallen prey to horrific violence from Fundamentalists and all for whom political instability is the opportunity to do harm. Beloved “music-TV” producer Aziz Smati has been gunned down, a raï musician killed for a song about sex and alcohol, and a raï producer [...]
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