hawgblawg: “Taqwacore is dead. Long live Taqwacore”
Siddharta Mitter, writing for MTV Iggy, brilliantly assesses the history and future (if any) of Taqwacore, frequently mis-identified as "Muslim Punk." (But -- how would you identify it?)...whether...
View Articlehawgblawg: Soraya Morayef on Egypt's Mahragan (Underground Shaabi/Shaabi...
Jadaliyya recently published this terrific article on the underground but now bubbling to the surface music scene which outsiders (like myself) have called techno shaabi but which is known locally as...
View Articlehawgblawg: Music and Torture, Music and War
Very interesting documentary from al-Jazeera, called "Songs of War." It features Christopher Cerf, a composer for Sesame Street, who, after learning that some of his music was used in the torture of...
View Articlehawgblawg: SCAF, Council of Bastards
Given the current state of affairs in Egypt, with the Supreme Council announcing its revisions of the constitution, which grant it much more power, and as the Egyptian public awaits the announcement...
View Articlehawgblawg: The People Rose in Cairo (kufiya content)
On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart gave a recap of the Egyptian Revolution/Counter-revolution to date, interviewed the host of the popular comedy Egyptian TV show Al-Bernameg, Bassem Youssef,...
View Articlehawgblawg: "A Beirut Minute" -- smokin' vid of Beirut, Lebanese rappers
Courtesy DJ Nickodemus, Justin Carty, Jackson Allen, Shortfuse Films: a terrific video with gorgeous scenes of Beirut and raps from Lebanese MCs Ed Abbas, Yaseen I-Voice, Malikah and Ramcess Funk...
View Articlehawgblawg: Cultural Diplomacy
Egypt has just held its first free and mostly fair elections and selected a new president. But the situation is in turmoil, as the junta (the SCAF, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) has also...
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