All posts with tag: Banning Eyre

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  blog June 18, 2013

  Lebanon Journal: First days in Beirut

  The remarkable thing about Beirut in the early summer of 2013 is how normal it seems. The tension one would expect reading international news headlines about the ever encroaching conflict in Syria would lead one to expect high tension, near … Read more »

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  blog May 3, 2013

  Cairo Journal: Heavy Metal and Ramadan

  Today is the first day of Ramadan and on the suggestion of our key adviser here, Kristina Nelson, I am joining the faithful in fasting, as she put it, “to see what it’s like.”  We will be attending a “break-fast” … Read more »

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  video April 8, 2013

  Thomas Mapfumo: The Path to Exile

  When Zimbabwe gained its independence in 1980, following years of brutal guerrilla war, Thomas Mapfumo was a national hero. His music had inspired the fighters in the bush, and his brilliant embrace and update of traditional Shona forms was a … Read more »

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  interview March 29, 2013

  Virginia Danielson on Umm Kulthum

  Virginia Danielson is author of “The Voice of : Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century” (University of Chicago Press. 1997).  I met her in her office on June 1, 2005, at the Edna Kuhn Loeb Music … Read more »

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  feature March 21, 2013

  Looking Back on Franco

  This appreciation was written by Banning Eyre on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Franco’s death in 1989. Twenty years after his death at 51, in October, 1989, Luambo Makiadi, a.k.a. Franco, still stands as one of the greatest … Read more »