She writes a poem about her beloved quilt. It smells like Teita’s home in Cairo, and that comforts Kanzi. What she doesn’t know yet is that the quilt will help her make new friends. Why I like this book: The Arabic Quilt is a compassionate and feel-good book for immigrant ...
He deftly weaves a pseudo-coherence between the racist slur described in the poem and a plea for the sanctity of sand: ‘It is typical of us mortals / to mock this Earth. To spit / on its Holy.’ For Fahmy the taste of sand woke poetry in him, and from the desert his body rises...
typical music of the people. In all three countries, chaabi is highly fusional, and its sound jubilant and celebratory, often played in weddings, festivals and dances. However, in each country, chaabi shares nation-specific characteristics and carries distinguished implications. It speaks for the co...
For vocal or instrumental albums containing greater than 75% playing time of newly recorded material. The intent of this category is to recognize recordings that represent the blending of jazz with Latin, Iberian-American, Brazilian, and Argentinian tango music. Quietude Eliane Elias My Heart Speaks...
The Old English term for the darker-complexioned Britons brown men or black men Wealas. (Wealas - which is what the new Anglo-Saxon people called the native Celtic inhabitants of England). There is another old word used by the Anglo-Saxons to denote black or brown-black the word swear...