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Middle-East

Jazz Review: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & whatsnext at Scullers — An Intoxicating Mix

There were times during the performance when Mehmet Ali Sanlikol and the band seemed to fully enter the Ottoman empire.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Middle-East, Scullers, Turkey, whatsnext

Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination

Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

By: Tess Lewis Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Gabriel Levin, German literature, Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, Middle-East, Peter Wortsman, The Dune's Twisted Edge: Journeys in the Levant, Travelers' Tales

Stage Interview: Eclectic Storyteller Cyndi Freeman Comes Home in “And I Am Not Lying Live”

“Why has it taken so long for me to come back home? I don’t know. I have been thinking about it for years and it just never quite seemed like the right time until now.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: And I Am Not Lying Live, Brad Lawrence, Burlesque, Cyndi Freeman, Jeff Simmerman, Middle-East, storytelling, wbur

Theater Feature: Enter Israeli Stage

Exciting things are happening in Israeli writing, and it is garnering considerable attention in Europe. But what about theater in Israel? Israeli Stage offers the curious a chance to see what is happening.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, drama, Guy Ben-Aharon, Israel, Israeli Stage, Middle-East

Film Review: Incendies — A Global Tale of Family, Fate, Conflict, and Tragedy

Luckily, there’s plenty to this film besides it’s Middle Eastern setting. INCENDIES focuses primarily on relationships and human drama, while politics form the film’s periphery.

By: Taylor Adams Filed Under: Film Tagged: Film, Incendies, Middle-East

Visual Arts Review: Gaza in Photographs — Up Close and Personal

Though unquestionably didactic, Skip Schiel’s images are also haunting glimpses of the perilous nature of life in Gaza. The photographs never feel invasive or forced; they simply capture moments of intimate truth between photographer and subject.

By: Sarah Correia Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Eyewitness Gaza, Gaza, Israel, Middle-East, Photography, Skip Schiel

Coming Attractions: Popular Music in August 2010

Ambient indie-pop and summery surf sounds take over Boston in the second half of August. By Thomas Samph August 13, Deerhunter at Royale At a Deerhunter show, the sight of frontman Bradford Cox’s skeleton-like figure striding on to the stage through a thick mist (sometimes wearing a dress) is as ethereal and spooky as his […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Beach Fossils, Deerhunter, Great Scott, indie pop, indie rock, Middle-East, O'Brien's, Popular Music, Royale, Stereo Total, Tennis, The Ropes, Thomas Samph

Coming Attractions in Jazz: June 2010

By J. R. Carroll June brings a cupful of world jazz. [Updated: See Mose Allison item below] Photo by Daniel Sheehan While the eyes of the sporting world may be on the stadiums of South Africa, there will be plenty of international flavor here in New England this month. Brazilian born but now Seattle-based, pianist/composer/arranger […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Jazz, Music, Visual Arts, World Books Tagged: Afrobeat, Al Di Meola, Allen Toussaint, Amazing Things Arts Center, Arturo Sandoval, Cesar Pedroso, Discover Jazz Festival, Don Byron, Duduka da Fonseca, Fela Kuti, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, João Gilberto, Jovino Santos Neto, Joyce Moreno, Julian Lage, Los Van Van, Manolo Mairena, Middle-East, Mose Allison, Narrows Center for the Arts, Natick Center for the Arts, Nilson Matta, Paradise Rock Club, Pupy y Los Que Son Son, Romero Lubambo, songo, Symphony Hall, Tony Allen, Trio da Paz, Trombone Shorty, Troy Andrews, Wilbur Theatre, World Sinfonia

Coming Attractions: Popular Music in April 2010

By Thomas Samph Vampire movies, dirty whigs, Wilco beer, peace bombs, Russian retrograde, tappin’ khakis, and sweaty Soviet soirees are just a few reasons why April is a great month for music listeners in Boston. The month starts off with a performance by the illegitimate love child of two musical genres, heavy metal and opera […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music, World Books Tagged: April, Atoms for Peace, Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Gogol Bordello, Great Scott, Harper's Ferry, heavy metal, House of Blues, Kaki King, Middle-East, OrpheumTheatre, Popular Music, Radio Moscow, The Whigs, Thom Yorke, Thomas Samph, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Vampire Weekend, Wilco

World Books: In Search of a Saudi Tolstoy

By Bill Marx Saudi Arabian author Abdo Khal won the $60,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Arab Booker) for his novel Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles, which is also known as She Throws Sparks. Taleb Alrefai, who served as chair for this year’s panel of judges, said, “The winning novel is a brilliant […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Podcast, World Books Tagged: Abdo Khal, Arab Booker, Books, dissident-writing, Jonathan-Levi, Middle-East, Podcast

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