Bab L’Bluz Fuses Gnawa, Blues & Rock
Founded in 2018, Bab L'Bluz has just come out with a stunning debut album fusing gnawa, blues, rock and chaabi, not to be missed.
Founded in 2018, Bab L'Bluz has just come out with a stunning debut album fusing gnawa, blues, rock and chaabi, not to be missed.
Franco-Sudanese master painter Hassan Musa is the bomb.
What we're reading, watching, listening to and otherwise indulging in (comments welcome).
On the 40th anniversary of Iran's revolution, an Iranian-born American attorney argues for the Iranian people, but against Iran's regime and U.S. anti-Iran sanctions.
An American volunteer on a recent mission in Iraq observes the state of the country.
An Angeleno assesses The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
When a repressive government moves against the most despised in society, if left unchecked, no one is safe and it will move against its own citizens.
Are economic sanctions a gentle way to put pressure on certain unfriendly states to change their ways, or are they a subversive act of war?
While Elaine Mokhtefi worked devotedly for the Black Panthers, the men who ran it were, it turned out, deeply flawed.
For those who know little about Yemen, sometimes learning about distant disaster through a human story is the best way to come to grips with it.
An Egyptian Jew who came to the United States as a child, Joyce Zonana has always identified closely with her Arab and African roots.
Politicians, not terrorists, are the chief instigators of Islamophobic prejudice, and with election it gets worse.
Advice to Writers, Recognize, The Outsider and Dear America come to us from Iranian immigrants working in the American diaspora.
An immigrant from Beirut, now a trial lawyer, writes about life in the trenches.
Norman Finkelstein speaks in Los Angeles on the martyrdom of Gaza.
Her performance "felt sincerely unrehearsed in its apparent spontaneity, yet precisely prepared in its apparent flawlessness."
Daniel Y-Li Grove and Reza Sixo Safai's New Wave neon Noir takes us for an exhilarating ride.
Daniel Y-Li Grove and Reza Sixo Safai’s New Wave neon Noir takes us for an exhilarating ride.
Jeff Halper, author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification, declares two state solution moot.
[Editor’s Note: the people interviewed for this feature asked that their last names and personal/professional details be withheld for reasons of privacy and in some cases, a concern for safety.] … Continue reading My Name is X: Six Post-Election Confessions
A play on ground zero of American Black life.
A play on ground zero of American Black life.
Original translations from a native Farsi speaker offer new window onto the mystical poetry of Rumi.
Iranian American delves beneath the surface of stereotypes about women in the Islamic Republic of Iran.