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November 2010

Elections in Egypt; Gnawa North African Music

This week, we’ll have a conversation with Egyptian journalist and blogger Hossam El Hamalwy about this month’s upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Egypt. Later in the program, we’ll bring you the second part of a conversation with ethnomusicologist Dr Tim Abdellah Fuson on the genealogy of Gnawa music OF Northwestern Africa.

Cartoon: Sam – Karzai

For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.

Lebanese Oil Spill; Gnawa music in North Africa

We talk to him about the worst oil spill catastrophe ever to befall the Eastern Mediterranean, in July of 2006, which resulted from targeted Israeli air strikes on the giant Lebanese Fuel tanks of Jiyyeh. Later in the program, we bring you the first part of a two-part conversation with ethnomusicologist Dr Tim Abdellah Fuson about the genealogy of Gnawa music in Northwestern Africa.

Cartoon: Drone in Pakistan

For more of Khalil Bendib’s cartoons, visit The Pen is Funnier than the Sword.