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...thought, so to speak, about Arab culture. This he does with engaging humor and scant respect for many Arab governments. He intersperses juicy recipes and equally juicy stories about growing up in Nablus and attending conferences around the world as an adult. He explains how to make falafel, tabbouleh, baba ghanoush and lesser-known dishes. At the same time, the reader picks up knowledge that is not strictly culinary. For example, that baba means coquettish and ghanoush is, roughly, dissolute - adjectives that seem unlikely for an aubergine purée but which Jamal explains in a delightful story about...
That was not entirely true. Politics intruded on the air war and, for the first week at least, prevented some targets from being attacked. To the north of Kabul, troops of the Northern Alliance have been preparing for an offensive; their people are hungry and spoiling for a fight. Baba Qool, a refugee from the village of Hazarbagh who is in a camp under the troops' protection, lost his wife, three sons and two daughters when the Taliban--with Pakistani, Uzbek and Uighur Chinese troops in its force--raided the village last year. One old woman was rolled...
...That was not entirely true. Politics intruded on the air war and, for the first week at least, prevented some targets from being attacked. To the north of Kabul, troops of the Northern Alliance have been preparing for an offensive; their people are hungry and spoiling for a fight. Baba Qool, a refugee from the village of Hazarbagh who is in a camp under the troops' protection, lost his wife, three sons and two daughters when the Taliban?with Pakistani, Uzbek and Uighur Chinese troops in its force?raided the village last year. One old woman was rolled...
Koité could not have provided a bigger contrast. Despite referring to Mapfumo as, “My elder brother,” Koité—a relative newcomer in West African music compared to superstars such as Baba Maal or Salif Keita—comes from a new generation of African musicians. The sound of Koité’s band escalated as each member arrived on stage and added their instruments to the burgeoning sound before Koité himself arrived and added his high-octane acoustic guitar playing and stunningly pure, flexible voice...
...thing or two about the ease of musical and movie-star mastery. "Well, Did You Evah," an old Cole Porter tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry...