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Timbuktu: A Film Review


Posted by azra on 06 Aug 2015 / 0 Comments
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A few months ago I watched Abderrahmane Sisako’s Timbuktu, as part of a retrospective of Sissako’s work at the Walker Art Museum. It stunned me at the time—the film examines how daily life changes in a Malian community where an al-Qaeda group has taken over. While the film focuses primarily on a young family’s tribulations when […]

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Music/Radio

“Islamists Do Not Want Anyone To Sing”


Posted by anike on 17 Dec 2012 / 0 Comments
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Mali is a country well known for its strong musical traditions. In a country where music is viewed as part of a cultural heritage, it is especially used as a means through which history is recorded. Music is considered to be Mali’s “greatest and most important export product”. It is also a tool of resistance. […]

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Culture/Society

Fashion as Resistance: The Case of Mali


Posted by eren on 04 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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Two weeks ago, I wrote a post discussing the attempt among Muslim leaders in Russia to prove that Russian Muslim women are modern and fashionable, unlike Muslims elsewhere. Soon after, fashion made headlines again, this time in the case of Mali, with Yahoo! News reporting on Darkar Fashion Week 2012. The event, which takes place […]

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Khaira Arby, The “Nightingale of Mali”


Posted by azra on 30 Jun 2011 / 0 Comments
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“My voice is a gift from God.” Khaira Arby in an interview with Steve Hochman for Spinner. Reading through a list of upcoming acts at my local music venue, I came across a woman whose name I hadn’t heard of before—Khaira Arby. Intrigued, I clicked on her act to learn more about her. Singing in […]

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