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...Friday night, 20 undergraduates from a Habitat for Humanity trip danced cha-cha on the dark floor of a club called Cafe Brasil. Some sipped out of plastic cups, listening to a man singing on stage. The act was Fredy Omar con su Banda, an eight-member crew with one main vocalist—Fredy Omar himself...
...students met Omar because they are helping to lay the foundation for his house in the Musicians’ Village, a community of 80 houses being built in the Upper Ninth Ward...
...Since the storm, Omar has been staying in the largely unaffected French Quarter. The new village, he says, “is going to be an opportunity to start again fresh...
...local warlords: In Gaza, on Monday, Fatah-aligned gunmen who attacked a Palestinian police station and electricity utility were repelled by mostly Fatah-aligned Palestinian policemen. Hamas, meanwhile, has picked a cabinet designed to show a responsible face to the world: Its nominee for finance minister, economist Omar Abdel Razzak, has said that financial cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians is in the best interests of both sides, and should continue. He believes it will, since he also thinks Israel will move towards making a reluctant accommodation with a Hamas-led government once its own election is over. After...
...militias damaged the tiny al-Haq Sunni mosque with rocket-propelled grenades. Afterward, members of the local unit of the Shi'ite Mahdi Army surrounded the mosque, guarding it from further attack. "That afternoon and night the Shi'ites prayed in my mosque," says the grateful local imam, Jawhar Omar al-Zibari. "They told me they would die before allowing another attack." But the imam's Sunni flock is streaming out of the area. A year ago, at least 50 people went into the mosque for the five-times-a-day prayers; now it's a good day when...