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It’s tempting as a China correspondent to look at the political changes sweeping Burma, and imagine their equivalent happening in China [...]
The hotel where I’m staying in Amman is teeming with Libyans seeking medical care in Jordanian hospitals. A friend here tells me that’s the case with most hotels. These are a couple of guys I met in the lobby yesterday.
Isabelle Eberhardt lived a wildly unconventional existence. She was a late 19th century explorer and writer, and an incredibly daring woman [...]
TJ Martin, co-director of this year’s Oscar winning documentary feature “Undefeated” was not the only one to drop a live “F Bomb” last Sunday night during his acceptance speech [...]
When the grown-ups put on the news from Syria, the kids started chanting along with the crowds shown on screen: “The people want the downfall of the regime!” [...]
Guitarist and songwriter Jimi M’baye got his name from Jimi Hendrix. “I used to play tunes like ‘Hey Joe’ and ‘Crosstown Traffic’ when I first started,” Jimi (born Mamadou) told me [...]
One interview led to another earlier this week. I met with the assistant director of Youssou N’dour’s citizen movement known as Fekke Ma Ci Boole. In the Wolof language that means “it is because I am a witness that I play a part.” [...]
It is a city that has become the focal point of the ongoing crisis in Syria – Homs. Dr. Rim Turkmani lives in London now, but was was born and grew up in Homs.
There used to be this traditional celebration in France on November 25th. It’s known as la Sainte Catherine [...]
It remains to be seen whether these moves will result in real improvements, but they’re at least an implicit pledge of change, and they almost invite an even brighter spotlight on the largely dark backstory behind Apple’s glistening products.
All conflicts begin to seem more real, closer and bloodier when one of your own dies.
Our Global Hit team, Marco Werman and April Peavey, get about 40 CDs each week. “Not enough time in the day,” April says. It’s a Herculean task. You can’t hear them all, and the ones you do get to hear, you don’t always have time to craft a Global Hit around it [...]
The routine at these almost daily rallies goes like this: crowds gather, including local activists like Y’en a marre and the civil society activists in M23. They chat, rail against incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade, and exchange the latest news until one or more of the opposition candidates running against Wade arrives. Youssou N’dour often shows up as well.
Djily Baghdad, featured here in video, raps the anthem of the Y’en a marre (we’re fed up) movement. Y’en a marre is a large community of rappers who are demanding President Abdoulaye Wade to leave power.
