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Laura Wetzler Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics. - sound recording review
Nervy Girl Jewish music is a field as big as the globe and as old as civilization--and thus one nearly impossible to get a handle on. But on Kabhalah ......(Continue Reading) Illustrious Arab poets through the centuries
'I've left my heart in the hands of God in Baghdad I said good bye to him when I wished instead, That I would say good bye to the days of my life'....(Continue Reading)The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)Queen of Persia: rock in the lap of the gods
THE FIRST ROCK group to have its music officially authorized for sale by Iran's ruling mullahs is, of all acts, Queen. The band, popular in the 1970s ......(Continue Reading)'This is not the country it was when Labour returned to power in 1997': what do we mean by multiculturalism? In Britain, it once meant embracing the diverse
Returning to America after an absence of 20 years, Henry James wrote, in The American Scene (1907), of his unease at the arrival in New York of so many ......(Continue Reading)
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