Thursday, March 31 2011
Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Bellydance
The whole body of instruments whipping in unison around a hairpin curve and hovering, the grace of a ballerina backed with the heft of a whale.
Tuesday, January 18 2011
‘Lebanon’ Succeeds Through Its Restrictions
Using only the inside of a tank as a setting, the film is a story about modern warfare generally as much as it is one about the 1982 Lebanon War specifically.
Wednesday, July 23 2008
Various: The Rough Guide to Arabic Café
Listening to the Rough Guide to Arabic Café, I realised that this is not the same as the music you would expect to hear if you were sitting in a Western coffee shop.
Monday, July 14 2008
Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes
Every time the reader is drawn in deeper, Younes pulls away, retracting back into her unaffected prose.
Tuesday, September 25 2007
Lebanon: Planet Rubble
A band from Tel Aviv named Lebanon? Go figure. Well, whatever the band’s moniker, this group can certainly meld a lot of genres.
