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...Friday night, gunfire exploded across Baghdad. But it was good news. Shaza Hassoon, daughter of an Iraqi father and Moroccan mother, won Star Academy, an American Idol-like singing competition in Beirut. Families had been gathered in front of television sets across Iraq every Friday night for four months cheering on one of their own. Hassoon won the competition with 7 million votes coming in via telephone and text messages from across the Middle East. The cheering crossed sectarian lines. In the northern - and Kurdish - city of Irbil and neighborhoods packed with Iraqi exiles in Amman, families took...
...pizazz and bohemian comfort. White walls are warmed with pink paint on the first two floors, and muted oak floorboards run throughout. There's also a dramatic, entrance-making spiral staircase. Each floor features Robin's quirky flea-market finds, including a Turkish glass chandelier, armchairs covered in Moroccan brocade, and 1950s pottery. Appropriately, Ciocco calls the new salon the "boudoir of Paris." She says she agreed to the venture out of her infinite respect for Robin's research?adding that his products offer "a complex alchemy" for being effective and being nutritious to the scalp and hair...
...Ahead of them is a Muslim bookstore, displaying DVDs by imams and books with titles like Scientific Miracles in the Koran. On one corner there's a halal butcher shop; around another, a music store that sells only Arab music. Someone has plastered posters advertising a concert by the Moroccan musician Daoudi. But this isn't Morocco. This is France. And we're not in the suburbs, where many of France's marginalized North African communities live. The Goutte d'Or quarter is right in the 18th arrondissement of the capital. "This neighborhood, you wouldn't even know...
...Moroccan immigrant Omar, 39, has worked steadily since arriving in Bologna three years ago. He's happy about that and relieved to have a place in a city-run hostel for single immigrant males, even though he'll have to find other quarters within a year. "This resolved a crisis for me," Omar says. "Life isn't easy for immigrants, but the city does help...
More important than the awards, though, is the rare mix of ambition and imagination on display in the Mexicans' films. Babel, written by Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga, is a sprawling story of chance and destiny; a random gunshot from a reckless Moroccan boy triggers anguished events in Mexico, the U.S. and Japan. Children of Men conjures up a future world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape...