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Gov 2.0 x Reality TV: Brick City
If you haven’t already seen the new Sundance channel reality/doc series, “Brick City” (Sundays at 9PM EST), then you haven’t experienced one of the best examples of the use of new media to create...
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Arab rapper X Jewish Rapper: Mazzi & Sneakas
Having just completed my last post about the Arab-Israeli film “Ajamai”, I felt it only right to brave the (second) blizzard of aught-ten to go see Mazzi & Sneakas, your favorite rapper’s favorite...
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My name is Khan (or Hussain)… (pt. 2)
When I was blogging last night about the film “My Name is Khan”, and its intersection with President Obama, it did not yet occur to me that the greatest irony of the film is not the Muslim Indian actor...
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Chen Lo & the Liberation Family tour the Middle East/North Africa with the US...
Photo credit: Frank Stewart for Jazz at Lincoln Center My peoples Chen Lo and the Liberation Family just returned from an incredible tour of the Middle East and North Africa, sponsored by the USState...
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Shadia Mansour wins back the Arab Kufiya
Photo Credit: Ridz Design (via Illuminarcy Blog) Last month, Palestinian Hip Hop star, Shadia Mansour, released the much-anticipated first single from her forthcoming debut album, “El Kofeye...
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Arab Hip Hop All-Stars assemble in Brooklyn
This past Friday night will go down in the history of Hip Hop as the night that the leaders of the Arab Hip Hop movement, DAM, The Narcicyst, Lowkey, and Shadia Mansour, first performed together on...
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Awlaki’s other admirer: MC Abu Nurah
As the Western newsmedia went back into panic mode last week after the failed terrorist attack in Times Square, we learned very quickly that the main suspect, Faisal Shahzad, was not only linked to the...
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US State Dept. sends Chen Lo to Vietnam
After a successful tour of the Middle East and North Africa, the US State Dept. has dispatched Hip Hop ambassador Chen Lo on a tour of Vietnam. From Vietnam News US consulate sponsors hip-hop programme...
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“Muslim Woodstock”?
From Maytha Alhassen, a Ph.D. student studying Muslim American identity at the University of Southern California and blogging for CNN. The Narcicyst and Omar Offendum take the stage. Some have...
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Cynthia & Malikah in Alexandria
Cultural diplomacy expert, former ambassador to the Netherlands, and Hip Hop Diplomacy advisor-at-large, Cynthia Schneider, was in Alexandria 2 weeks ago for the Bibliotheca’s conference: Initiatives...
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