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...first 90 piquant seconds of Gedida, infused with Mediterranean motifs, Egyptian strings, bittersweet melody and digitized beats, cause forgotten limbs to tap, twiddle, turn and trot. Atlas, an Egyptian-Palestinain-half-Muslim-half-Jewish-singer-belly-dancer, Brussels-born and U.K.-raised, has performed in London with Jah Wobble, the club fusion outlet Transglobal Underground and in Page and Plant's 1998 European Tour. Gedida is her third album. And perhaps, enough. Atlas' climactic introduction is just a prelude to ten long, indistinguishable tracks. Gedida has everything--hip hop, London dance beats, samplings from Rob Base & E-Z Rock, industrial...

Author: By By JUDITH Batalion, | Title: Album Review: Gedida by Natacha Atlas | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Gaza Strip and West Bank on Thursday as clashes with Palestinian police and demonstrators continued in the bloodiest exchanges since 1993. After three days of gunfire, at least 42 Palestinians and 11 Israelis are dead, and some 400 Palestinians and 32 Israelis have been wounded. Thousands of stone-throwing Palestinain demonstrators in the Gaza Strip attacked the small Jewish settlements of Netzarim and Kfar Darom. "There's been violence in Jerusalem's old city and at checkpoints all along the West Bank," reports TIME's Jean Max from Jerusalem. "It's not just rock-throwing anymore; it's shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanks in Gaza and West Bank as Conflict Spreads | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

...means of presenting alternative viewpoints, Springer brought Taysir Aruri to campus to speak earlier this year. Aruri, a Palestinain lecturer of physics at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, was deported without a public hearing. The Progressive Jewish Alliance also participated in a petition drive to protest the closing of Palestinian universities in the occupied territories. And Springer helped bring to Harvard a representative from Yesh G'vul, a group of Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Speaking Singly, He Invokes a Nation's Conscience | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

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