Thursday, May 19 2011
Malika Zarra: Berber Taxi
The marriage of voice-and-keyboard jazz with gnawa, oud and various North African ideas is so deft that the joints never show.
Friday, November 13 2009
To Siberia by Per Petterson
How does the narrator survive after losing her beloved brother? Petterson offers no easy answers.
Tuesday, May 19 2009
Secret Son by Laila Lalami
Authors like Lalami provide a gateway through which readers can hope to understand more about the driving forces in disparate global cultures.
Monday, July 21 2008
Pathways to Creation: Exploring Sacred Music in Fes, Morocco
PopMatters goes to Morocco for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to honor and share the world’s great spiritual music traditions. At this 14th annual festival, Derek Beres would hear the indigenous sounds of Vietnam, Tunisia, Norway, Pakistan, Belgium, America, and much more.


































