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...This is a typical Sudanese band," says Omar Yahia, 50, the proprietor of Papa Costa's restaurant, "one of twenty that used to exist. They would play live and compete with each other more than thirty years ago." That was before the Islamists seized control of Sudan, all but banning live music and imposing curfews that kept people at home...
...penchant for authoritarian systems, dabbling first in state socialism before opting for political Islam and imposing Sharia law in parts of the country. Musicians were arrested and private parties at which bands played were broken up by Nimeiry's goons. Little changed when Nimeiry was ousted. In 1989, Omar al-Bashir came to power in a military coup. He was backed by Hassan al-Turabi, the Islamist ideologue who invited Osama bin Laden to settle in Khartoum in the mid-1990s. But when al-Bashir signed a peace deal with Christian rebels in the south, allowing non-Muslims into...
Make your choice: Cuban sandwich or American burger? -Omar Laffita, MiamiWell burger to me is pretty wide. I have probably 300 different burger recipes. I'll make anything into a burger, from salmon to swordfish. I make shrimp burgers and Portobello burgers. I guess I have to pick the burger, though it's probably not what he's asking. He's probably thinking a straight up little beef patty on a lone...
...What I’m trying to demonstrate is that however much we fear poetry or don’t like reading it, we live with it everyday” Sifuentes says. The poetry of daily life was shown in a slideshow of pictures taken by Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09, Kelly A. Evans ’10, Louisa R. Malkin ’09, and Steven Surachman ’09 that documented a 24-hour period of their lives. The poem that accompanied their exhibit was Robert Lowell’s confessional poem...
...that Harvard hopes to copy as it moves into the Ivy League season.Harvard’s No. 1 doubles duo of senior Ashwin Kumar and junior Sasha Ermakov (which went 3-0 on the road trip) showed why they are All-Americans, beating the 23rd-ranked duo of Omar Altmann and Andre Begemann by a score of 8-5.The outcome was not as positive for the Crimson’s other two doubles pairs, both of which lost, giving Pepperdine the doubles point.In singles, the only victories came at No. 4 and 5, from Nguyen and freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien.HARVARD...