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March 03, 2010
6:06
interzone radio, march 2
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S43wrbQVyXI/AAAAAAAAB9A/2TxzPLgJuVU/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 275px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S43wrbQVyXI/AAAAAAAAB9A/2TxzPLgJuVU/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444272153402132850" border="0" //abr /div style="text-align: center;"podcast for the show is a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yjqycmwfjnd"here/a. and the playlist is a href="http://interzoneradio.blogspot.com/2010/03/interzone-radio-show-podcast-playlist.html"here/a.br ...
February 24, 2010
17:15
interzone radio show, podcast playlist, for tues. feb. 23
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podcast for this show is a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8e1975af51b4c322ab1eab3e9fa335ca9aa7074ad6dec92a"here/a.br /div style="text-align: right;"playlist for the show is a href="http://interzoneradio.blogspot.com/2010/02/playlist-february-23-2010.html"here/a.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S4VR3BlNK2I/AAAAAAAAB8c/Is-ncmA7OfU/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S4VR3BlNK2I/AAAAAAAAB8c/Is-ncmA7OfU/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441845730506255202" ...
February 21, 2010
20:30
Is "Avatar" (Secretly) Pro-Palestinian?
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S4GMyAquMVI/AAAAAAAAB78/oENdP4WHiQ8/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S4GMyAquMVI/AAAAAAAAB78/oENdP4WHiQ8/s400/Picture+4.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440784615640805714" //adiv style="text-align: center;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;"Inez van Lamsweerde amp; Vinoodh Matadin for the NY Times/span/span/divdiv style="text-align: center;"br //divThe cover of ...
February 16, 2010
5:15
Another 'tough guy' kufiya: Matt Damon in "Green Zone"
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S3ofBofrrII/AAAAAAAAB7E/RgqRlLp-20Y/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S3ofBofrrII/AAAAAAAAB7E/RgqRlLp-20Y/s400/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438693612913929346" //aI haven't even had a chance to see iFrom Paris with Love/i or iThe Book of Eli/i yet, and now there's ...
February 07, 2010
20:48
Kufiya: not dead by a long shot
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S28ab0glFKI/AAAAAAAAB6k/XiXu8y4S_H8/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S28ab0glFKI/AAAAAAAAB6k/XiXu8y4S_H8/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435592340513559714" //aThe kufiya has had its designer moment. That's over. But it still remains an important style item. Here are a few ...
1:10
(St.) Patti Smith, Jaffa, and Felafel
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i In heart I am a Moslem/idiviIn heart I am an American/i/divdiviIn heart I am Moslem/i/divdiviIn heart I'm an American artist, and I have no guilt./ibr /div style="text-align: right;" -Patti Smith, "Babelogue," span style="font-style:italic;"Easter/span (1978)/divdiv style="text-align: right;"br //divdiv style="text-align: right;" ...
February 04, 2010
5:55
interzone radio podcast for feb. 2 is up
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S2pUilWPauI/AAAAAAAAB4s/3Z19imPzO5Y/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 356px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S2pUilWPauI/AAAAAAAAB4s/3Z19imPzO5Y/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434248853493607138" //abr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"last night's interzone radio show, hosted by d.j. teo, is now available as a podcast, by going /spana ...
February 02, 2010
5:44
Massive Attack and the Palestine Connection (of course)
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S2e2NqdLYoI/AAAAAAAAB4c/RVYUXOobL58/s1600-h/G_D_DuPreez_Jones_2010.jpeg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S2e2NqdLYoI/AAAAAAAAB4c/RVYUXOobL58/s400/G_D_DuPreez_Jones_2010.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433511821297017474" //abr /Massive Attack's latest (fifth) album, iHeligoland/i, is out now. I am listening to it right now, because it is now ...
February 01, 2010
17:08
The Fez Series: Sun Ra his Arkestra in Chicago, 1960, the Tom Wilson connection
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S2b8tgrsgiI/AAAAAAAAB38/bgOr52X2hHg/s1600-h/ra.fez.or.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S2b8tgrsgiI/AAAAAAAAB38/bgOr52X2hHg/s400/ra.fez.or.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433307859266601506" //abr /This is my reproduction of the inner tray card of the Sun Ra CD, a href="http://www.amazon.com/Music-Tomorrows-World-Sun-Arkestra/dp/B00006YXFY""Music from Tomorrow's World"/a (Atavistic, ...
January 25, 2010
6:36
Kufiyas as (desired) signifiers of danger for soldiers and other tough guys
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S1utYj03tfI/AAAAAAAAB2o/GaN_YvkrY2E/s1600-h/wallpaper_modern_warfare_2_02.jpeg"img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S1utYj03tfI/AAAAAAAAB2o/GaN_YvkrY2E/s400/wallpaper_modern_warfare_2_02.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430124413170726386" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " //aLately I've run across a spate of kufiyas that are quite distinct from ...
January 22, 2010
4:16
Interzone radio podcast
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S1kdMO-of7I/AAAAAAAAB2Q/mjMkz8TfyoI/s1600-h/51rZJTIpN3L._SS500_.jpeg"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S1kdMO-of7I/AAAAAAAAB2Q/mjMkz8TfyoI/s400/51rZJTIpN3L._SS500_.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429402921788276658" //aAfter a long break that started in July, I've returned to the airwaves and the netwaves. Interzone Radio is back on ...
January 15, 2010
18:40
"The Taqwacores" to screen at Sundance! Trailer now available on MTV!
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S1CtLDr2_1I/AAAAAAAAB14/Pj7IDCWBeqc/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 191px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S1CtLDr2_1I/AAAAAAAAB14/Pj7IDCWBeqc/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427027956460879698" //aCheck out this a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailers/471188/the-taqwacores.jhtml#id=1629757"terrific trailer/a for "The Taqwacores," courtesy MTV. It will screen soon at the Sundance Film Festival. a ...
January 11, 2010
19:07
Dissin' skinny jean (and pashmina scarves, i.e., kufiyas)
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divispan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"The world's gone mad, the world's gone drag. Boys in their little sister's jeans like DAMN!!!/span/span/i/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"br //span/spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"/span/span/divdiv/divdivobject width="560" height="340"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HVcQJlgcsRIamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" ...
January 03, 2010
20:03
misc. #2010.z
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S0D1fv1kZ_I/AAAAAAAABz4/k0gDgdd3NTk/s1600-h/Lorenzl_Goldscheider_Dolores_del_Rio.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/S0D1fv1kZ_I/AAAAAAAABz4/k0gDgdd3NTk/s320/Lorenzl_Goldscheider_Dolores_del_Rio.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422603877119977458" border="0" //aHipsters. Orientalism. Qaddafi. Yusuf Islam. Rififi. Taqwacore. The Japanese Red Army. Any interest? Read on...br /divbr //divdivRandom ...
January 01, 2010
1:19
More on the turban puzzle: Rudy Ray Moore (and more)
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Still trying to make sense of the circulation of the turban (and fez/tarbush) in African-American popular culture. I just ran across an article that Blake gave me years ago, and that I had never bothered, until today, to read: "'I ...
December 31, 2009
5:52
More attacks on hipster kufiyas
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Maybe 'attacks' isn't the right word. Maybe 'snide satire.' However you want to characterize it, hipsters continue to be the object of a href="http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2009/04/look-at-fucking-kufiya-wearing-hipster.html"ridicule/a and fun-poking. No one ever seems to get tired of it. I guess 'they' are an ...
December 29, 2009
0:47
Tarbushes and kufiyas (but no Arabs) in "Kazablan"
» ‎ hawgblawg

Someone who follows this blog wrote to me awhile back and said to look for kufiyas in the Israeli film iKazablan/i (sometimes spelled, span style="font-style: italic;"Casablan/span). Thanks! (I can't find your email...so no personalized message.)br /br /iKazablan/i (1974, dir. Menahem ...
December 27, 2009
19:30
Footnotes on Rihanna
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Courtesy of what I've learned from friends, some more commentary on Rihanna and her notorious a href="http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2009/12/rihannas-hard-video-supporting-afghan.html""Hard" video/a.br /br /First, and I found this rather astounding, among Rihanna's 13 tattoos (I span style="font-style: italic;"think/span that the count is correct) is ...
December 26, 2009
16:37
BrAsian post-punk band Alien Culture
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SzYwW92zNFI/AAAAAAAABuI/brPcPaL8jk4/s1600-h/1-6.jpeg"img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SzYwW92zNFI/AAAAAAAABuI/brPcPaL8jk4/s320/1-6.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419572372706636882" //abr /divbr //divdivThanks to Nabeel Zuberi, I was led to a href="http://www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk/news/?p=3186"this/a post about the post-punk British Asian band Alien Culture. ...
December 24, 2009
19:48
Rihanna's "Hard" Video: Supporting the Afghan Surge
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object width="560" height="340"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uyHFXZ9BuUamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uyHFXZ9BuUamp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"/embed/objectdivbr //divdivOver the past year, I've heard my a href="http://merip.org/"MERIP/a comrade Moustafa Bayoumi give the same, great, paper twice, at last year's MESA (Middle East Studies ...
December 13, 2009
6:08
Some Myths and Misconceptions about Rai Music (Part One)
» ‎ hawgblawg

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SyR5Jc7_3EI/AAAAAAAABqo/GBejjpODYbA/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SyR5Jc7_3EI/AAAAAAAABqo/GBejjpODYbA/s400/Picture+5.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414585855299804226" border="0" //aThere have been few posts on this blog of late in part because I'm trying to focus ...
November 24, 2009
6:14
Kufiyas at University of California Protests
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Kufiyas were much in evidence at the University of California protests that erupted last week, against plans by the Regents to raise tuition by 32%. (Despite the protests, the Regents did the dirty deed.)br /br /Here's a photo from the ...
September 19, 2009
3:16
Yes we have more kufiyas
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a href="http://aalkadhi.com/content/website_2008/html_2008/works.htm"span style="font-weight: bold;"Ayad Alkadhi/span/a is an Iraqi artist, one of many, many Arab and Muslim artists who have used Arabic calligraphy in their work, who has done some interesting pieces using calligraphy and kufiyas. These are from his a ...
September 17, 2009
6:09
Even more on The Kominas + Pakistani rock
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SqyGcIaEEzI/AAAAAAAABnM/V6TKRT3CMZA/s1600-h/art.muslim.punk.kominas.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SqyGcIaEEzI/AAAAAAAABnM/V6TKRT3CMZA/s400/art.muslim.punk.kominas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380823472652161842" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"The Kominas/spanbr /br /Something happened to The Kominas since we last tuned in. They ...
September 12, 2009
7:50
Y.A.S., "Arabology"
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SqnSVcvZMQI/AAAAAAAABms/J1BAFPnej8I/s1600-h/Y_A_S_mirwais_yasmine_hamdan_group.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 247px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SqnSVcvZMQI/AAAAAAAABms/J1BAFPnej8I/s400/Y_A_S_mirwais_yasmine_hamdan_group.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380062495804829954" border="0" //aY.A.S. has been getting a fair amount of publicity for its album span style="font-style: italic;"Arabology/span, which reportedly ...
September 01, 2009
4:15
Kufiya roundup: Fateh, DJ Rodrigo, Haifa, M-1, The Hurt Locker, Leila Khaled, DC, NYC, ties, and high fashion
» ‎ hawgblawg

div style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sn4Z4jrn5bI/AAAAAAAABk8/W5g_2PPo3Bc/s1600-h/090806-fatah-hammad-1.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sn4Z4jrn5bI/AAAAAAAABk8/W5g_2PPo3Bc/s400/090806-fatah-hammad-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367756265313789362" border="0" //aspan style="font-size:85%;"PNA President Mahmoud Abbas, in the middle (/spanspan class="text14"span class="content"span class="text11"span style="font-size:85%;"Haytham Othman/a ...
August 15, 2009
16:32
Performance addendum
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I just finished reading this very illuminating and informative a href="http://home.comcast.net/%7Eflickhead/Performance.html"account/a of span style="font-style: italic;"Performance/span, the 1971 film starring Mick Jagger and James Fox. I wrote a a href="http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2007/07/performance-and-hassan-i-sabbah.html"post/a on span style="font-style: italic;"Performance/span two years ago, after seeing the film ...
July 22, 2009
18:33
The Kominas: National Tour (+kufiya bonus)
» ‎ hawgblawg

Taqwacore icons The Kominas are going on national tour! Go see them: all reports of live sightings are very positive. This is the latest, updated poster, fresh off the (virtual) press.br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Smh9Z8Tz2JI/AAAAAAAABkM/WeLaFiDrStE/s1600-h/kom1.jpg"img style="margin: 0px ...
July 18, 2009
3:03
M1 of Dead Prez in Gaza (and Kufiyaspotting #50)
» ‎ hawgblawg

Those familiar with the work of the rapper Dead Prez will not be surprised that he is a href="http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/cynthia-mckinney-charles-barron-m-1-of-dead-prez-arrive-in-gaza/"now in Gaza/a, as part of a 200 person delegation, including former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and New York City Councilman Charles ...
July 07, 2009
3:28
Cheb Mami sentenced to 5-year prison sentence
» ‎ hawgblawg

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SlKzIJm5QkI/AAAAAAAABjQ/eUEeqY7fZPA/s1600-h/chebmami-picture-1.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 350px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SlKzIJm5QkI/AAAAAAAABjQ/eUEeqY7fZPA/s400/chebmami-picture-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355539859496321602" border="0" //aUnbelievable! The Prince of Rai, dethroned. Here's a a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/world/europe/04briefs-FRANCEbrf.html"report/a from the span style="font-style: italic;"New York Times/span ...
July 06, 2009
17:00
Kufiyas are all over "The Hurt Locker"
» ‎ hawgblawg

To my great regret, span style="font-style: italic;"The Hurt Locker/span has not yet opened here. Maybe, if NW Arkansas fans of Kathryn Bigelow are lucky, it will open later this month. Carolina, who is fortunate enough to live in NYC, has ...
July 05, 2009
19:42
Elia Suleiman's movie, "The Time That Remains": released in August
» ‎ hawgblawg

Here's a trailer for span style="font-style: italic;"The Time That Remains/span, the latest film from highly-regarded Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman. It opens in France on August 12, after screening as an Official Selection at the a href="http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/10903551/year/2009.html"Cannes/a Film Festival in May. ...
July 03, 2009
16:53
Novelist Claire Messud on Palestine
» ‎ hawgblawg

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sk4d25YQjXI/AAAAAAAABio/Svv-gnTASIE/s1600-h/030609_messud_story1_1.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sk4d25YQjXI/AAAAAAAABio/Svv-gnTASIE/s320/030609_messud_story1_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354249835942808946" border="0" //aNovelist Claire Messud recently attended the Palestine Festival of Literature in the West Bank, and she just ...
July 02, 2009
16:51
Essential reading on Iran from MERIP + arrest of Iranian researcher Bijan Khajehpour
» ‎ hawgblawg

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SkzK0YgTTVI/AAAAAAAABiY/Pa5dZ5glQEM/s1600-h/merip_logo2.gif"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 90px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SkzK0YgTTVI/AAAAAAAABiY/Pa5dZ5glQEM/s400/merip_logo2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353877058316619090" border="0" //aThis press release was issued today:br /span style="font-family:'PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif';"br /NEWS RELEASE July 2, 2009br /br /Middle ...
June 28, 2009
18:59
Kufiyaspotting #49: Alex of "Isa TKM"
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SkelDex5BWI/AAAAAAAABiQ/5hsdD5RTVIc/s1600-h/isatkm_320.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SkelDex5BWI/AAAAAAAABiQ/5hsdD5RTVIc/s400/isatkm_320.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352428161373635938" border="0" //abr /span style="font-style: italic;"Isa TKM/span is a teenage telenovela from Nickelodeon Latin America, which has been ...
June 27, 2009
16:10
Culture Notes on #iranelection 3.7 + MJ
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1. span style="font-weight: bold;"Hich Kas/span, who is perhaps Iran's best known rapper, showed up recently on span style="font-weight: bold;"The Daily Show/span--in Jason Jones' three-part account of his recent trip to Iran. We get to witness Hich Kas' remarkable skills, and ...
June 25, 2009
23:18
More on culture/#iran election
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First up, a youtube video from Iranian rapper Salome, whom I learned about courtesy of Mark Levine's span style="font-style: italic;"Heavy Metal Islam/span. And thank God I did, for she is a terrific rapper. I embedded the video in my earlier ...
22:34
Mother Jones blames hipsters for decline of Palestine kufiya industry. Plus, Colin Farrell Isabel Marant
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The span style="font-style: italic;"Mother Jones/span blog published an a href="http://www.motherjones.com/riff/2009/06/your-intifada-made-china"article about kufiyas/a this week, by Sonja Sharp, and entitled "Your Intifada: Now Made in China!" For the most part, Sharp goes over material that hawgblawg has covered obsessively over the ...
June 24, 2009
5:34
Interzone Radio Playlist: Iran Special
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Here's the playlist from my Interzone Radio show, broadcast tonight on a href="http://www.stationlog.com/kxua/"KXUA 88.3 FM/a, from 6-8 PM. Interzone Radio is a world music show, and tonight, it was all Iranian music, in solidarity with the Iranian opposition movement. I ...
June 21, 2009
8:55
Kufiyaspotting #48: Kathryn Bigelow
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div style="text-align: center;"a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sj3aww6RJSI/AAAAAAAABhg/P-w07SE-00M/s1600-h/17darg3_650.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sj3aww6RJSI/AAAAAAAABhg/P-w07SE-00M/s400/17darg3_650.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349672463683888418" border="0" //aspan style="font-size:85%;"Jonathan Olley/Summit Entertainmentbr //span/divbr /I'm pretty excited to see this photo of director ...
June 20, 2009
22:49
More on culture and #iranelection: Shajarian, Makhmalbaf/Mousavi, Iranian rap and metal, Khamenei's kufiya trim
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sj1cMJLx5EI/AAAAAAAABhY/Eosg9G8AN70/s1600-h/Shajarian.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 371px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/Sj1cMJLx5EI/AAAAAAAABhY/Eosg9G8AN70/s400/Shajarian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349533296079529026" border="0" //a1. I've tracked down the context in which renowned Iranian singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian asked the Iranian ...
June 17, 2009
23:24
Culture and sports notes on #iranelection
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I'm passing on the 'new media,' since every single news media outlet has now published an article on the so-called twitter revolution, and so many have already said (and I even wrote it on Facebook): the revolution will be tweeted, ...
June 16, 2009
6:30
Iran, Palestine, Kufiyas
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Just in case anyone had any illusions that the mass demonstrations that took place in Tehran earlier today represent a pro-Western movement that might somehow be sympathetic with US pro-Israel foreign policy: just check out this photo of one of ...
June 14, 2009
1:15
Ramallah Syndrome, Ahdaf Soueif on Palestinian Art
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Check out the blog a href="http://ramallahsyndrome.blogspot.com/"Ramallah Syndrome/a, and its very informative discussions of Ramallah, Palestine's de facto 'capital.'br /br /From Jamil:br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Once you are outside Ramallah you immediately face Israeli checkpoints, so you have to see it ...
June 06, 2009
15:55
Live Kronos Quartet performance of Ramallah Underground's "Tahweesh"
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June 05, 2009
0:06
Reactions to Obama, Israel and Egypt (with kufiya content)
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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SihHOKX46rI/AAAAAAAABgo/NpXumI3i_Ug/s1600-h/obama%2Bposter.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 205px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_G_ctFbLwC5I/SihHOKX46rI/AAAAAAAABgo/NpXumI3i_Ug/s400/obama%2Bposter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343599266503387826" border="0" //aHere's a poster of Obama that a right-wing Israeli group is circulating to protest Barack Hussein's ...
June 02, 2009
22:54
Stop the Wall: Roger Waters
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The Walmart shareholders are congregating, as they do every year about this time. But it seems that organized protests against the Wal are span style="font-weight: bold;"not/span happening this year. I guess we are turning into sheep.br /br /Meanwhile, Roger Waters ...

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