Syrian women's group nurtures Arab musical roots
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Centuries ago, Arab servant girls would serenade the caliph, or ruler, a tradition that Syria's only all-woman classical Arab music ensemble is reviving in modern form -- without the servitude.
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Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S.  ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for  social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
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Hanging out with Hold Steady, the quintet that takes fierce pride in being dubbed a âbar band.â
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Worn down by four years of bloody conflict with Israel, Palestinians found a welcome diversion Sunday: watching Ammar Hassan, one of their own, compete for the title of best singer in the Arab world.
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Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S. ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - The lilt of a girl   singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of   different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music   school in northern Afghanistan.
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Lebanese Christian Mona Mehanna protested on March 14 last year to end Syria's hegemony in Lebanon. This year she is on the streets again, protesting with a group that enjoys Syrian support.
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DAMASCUS -- The crowd begins filling the courtyard of Opaline, a trendy restaurant, as late evening teeters toward early morning. Many arrive by golf cart, whisked through alleys to the wooden doors of a centuries-old Arab home within Old City walls.
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QUNAITERA, Syria  - Hundreds of Syrians living   under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights crossed no man's   land on Thursday in a rare visit to their homeland.
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A Libyan singer has won the Arab version of the Super Star singing competition staged in the Lebanese capital. Edging out Palestinian Ammar Hasan, Ayman al-Athar persuaded a majority of the 3.2 million viewers
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Many young Latina converts say Islam offers women more respect and better treatment.
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Stars from the worlds of rock and pop  have united on an album to be released Friday to raise funds  for the people of the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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Musicians for Harmony was founded after the Sept. 11 attacks to promote dialogue between warring cultures, and its principal founder, Allegra Klein, has been working with musicians in Iraq.
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.
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Hip-hop group Waayaha Cusub, or 'New Era,' is gaining the ear of Somalis from as far away as the US and Europe, but their controversial message challenges traditional norms and is attracting threats of violence.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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The woman musicians wore headscarves, but that didn't hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.