Short Biography
Khaled Hadj Brahim (born 29 February 1960), better known as Khaled (lang-ar ????), is a raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Sidi-El-Houri in Oran Province of Algeria. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic for "Young man Khaled") and has become ... Read More...
Finnish film enthusiasts rejoice! Äideist - Egypt Today Anew president, new tributes and a new venue for its opening ceremony — the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) is certainly celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in style. Over 125 films will be shown across the capital city this November 28 ...
In Praise of Vulgarity - Reason.com Who will ever forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another was abandoned by Taliban soldiers, crowds of happy men lined up to get their first legal shave in ...
Who is afraid of Disneyfication? A response to Sonja Hegasy - Open Democracy In spring 2003, Sonja Hegasy argued in openDemocracy that Arab intellectuals’ evasion of the challenge of globalisation was central to the Arab world’s culture of victimhood. Here, Mona Abaza – writing before the death of Edward Said, a key ...
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