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We slowed behind traffic on one of the roads through Central Park, and I found myself tapping my foot. The tune on the cab's stereo was Arabic but with a catchy, bubbling horn section. I asked who was playing. A Moroccan group, said the cabbie. He told me its...
DUNE FORCE Spend enough time in Wadi Rum, a desolate and spellbinding valley of rocks and rolling sands stretching 130 kilometers through the southern desert, and you're bound to come across the Desert Police?Jordan's sandblasted law enforcers. Dressed in ceremonial khaki galabias and armed with silver-sheathed...
MUSIC BOX It seems an unlikely place to find a jazz club, but Vinaigrette, on the top floor of the Howard Johnson AlQasr Hotel, tel: (962) 6568 9671, in the Shmeisani district of Amman, is where people in the know meet for late-night drinks and Arab fusion music. The...
The footage is sickening to watch. A young dog rests against a wall, a flowing green scarf tied around its neck. The camera catches the leg of a man in the room, wearing Afghan-style pants and slippers. Two men are speaking softly in Arabic. "Let's do this fast...
A divan can be a place to sit and do nothing. But the Arabic word has more active meanings. In Persia, a diwan was originally a brochure; later it came to signify a meeting place, a ministry, a court, an account book, a great hall, even a collection of poems...