Word: ethnicize
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...anything, Corsi seems to have seriously underestimated the broad Kenyan support for Obama, whose father was a Kenyan and who has several half-siblings here. While there is animosity between Luos and Kikuyus - and the tribes were responsible for much of the postelection violence - Obama is immensely popular across ethnic lines in Kenya. Ever since Odinga became Prime Minister in a power-sharing agreement with Kibaki, his own approval ratings have soared...
...album, High Places layer cross-cultural melodies over naturalistic soundscapes (think rainforest) with surprising success. At first, it may sound like a mess—discombobulated, slapdash, and just plain weird. But High Places aren’t just some randoms who decided to combine their love of global ethnic music with their snoozing troubles. Behind the ambience and space, the music is actually quite complex and sophisticated, especially given the band’s make-up: a duo of a multi-instrumentalist (Rob Barber) and a singer (Mary Pearson). From the very first song, “The Storm...
...What we tend to ignore is why Syria has had an uninterrupted record of attaching itself to radical causes and countries like Iran. For starters, Syria is ruled by a besieged and insecure minority, the Alawites, a heterodox-Shi'ite ethnic minority. About 12% of Syria's population, the Alawites are looked at by extremist Sunni Muslims as heretics, fallen-away Muslims, usurpers who should be put to the sword. In the late '70s and early '80s, the Sunni extremists came close to getting their way. During a February 1982 Muslim Brotherhood insurrection in Hama, Syria's third largest city...
...political and diplomatic concerns from pursuing enemy targets inside Pakistan, while the loyalties of Pakistan's security forces are clearly divided. Those forces - especially the Frontier Corps that guards the border - can be crudely characterized as being pro-Taliban (the Afghan Islamist movement is based in the Pashtun ethnic group found on both sides of the border) but hostile to al-Qaeda, which is composed of foreigners. But both organizations are found in Pakistan's lawless Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where Osama bin Laden and his key lieutenants are also believed to be holed...
...settlement, where he tracked down and recorded the music of Baamar Salmou. Doueh, as Salmou is known, had apparently refused recording contracts with major labels in Africa and Europe. The result of those recordings is nothing short of remarkable. Each song reverberates with a deeply rooted local color and ethnic identity, with a language and tone that sharply separate the music from anything being made in the West. But there is also the undeniable presence of late-60s British blues and the more psychedelic work of Hendrix. For those used to high-quality recording, production value, and lyrical and musical...