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		<title>Can&#8217;t Stop, Won&#8217;t Stop &#8211; Rolling Stone Magazine article for &#8216;Voice of the Streets&#8217; event</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAIRO - Last month, 12 of the re­gion’s best-known Arab rappers were set to per­form together at a public youth center in the swanky central Cairo district of Zamalek. Or­ganizers billed the Voice of the Streets event as a concert to re­mind people about the contin­ued struggle for freedom of ex­pression in the wake of the Arab uprisings. But the event was prematurely shut down by the Interior Ministry, who ordered organizers to shut the gates of the municipal youth club where it was set to take place.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=486&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Arab Revolution Arabic Graffiti Reclamation of a Canvas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Live from Beirut&#8230;.Lazzy Lung the Arab alt-rock Olympians!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT - The 4-piece Lebanese alternative rock outfit Lazzy Lung released their debut album in late 2010, and by all accounts they’re the hardest working crew in the Arab alternative rock scene looking to win their fans over – one listener at a time. Beats and Breath sat down with the band’s co-founder and frontman – Allan Chaaraoui to find out more about Lazzy Lung and their future plans.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=439&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soul II Soul&#8217;s Jazzie B: These are the breaks – Jazzie B&#8217;s sermon in Beirut</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trevor Beresfor Romeo aka Jazzie B, the legendary DJ, music producer and founding member of the musical collective Soul II Soul was in Beirut in March for a musical workshop with 44 musicians and producers from around the Arab world. BEATS AND BREATH sat down with Jazzie B to discuss music, his life philosophies and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=426&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HBO New York International Latino Film Festival official entry: Beats and Breath&#8217;s short documentary &#8216;Life from the BBC&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEATS AND BREATH is proud to announce that our documentary &#8220;Life from the BBC&#8221; is an official selection of the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival and will screen TODAY, Sunday, AUGUST 21st @ the AMC EMPIRE 14 in Manhattan. FOR ANYONE IN NEW YORK CITY TODAY &#8211; TELL YOUR FRIENDS! WHEN: August 21st, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=408&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East&#8217;s Lyrical Bomber: Author, Actor, Husband, MC &#8211; The Narcicyst on Beats and Breath</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beats and Breath continues to look at the Arab uprisings and the rise of Arab hip-hop, releasing uncensored interviews with key members of the Arab hip-hop massive -much of the material archived during the production of the 30-min Beats and Breath/Free Speech Radio News radio documentary Rhymes and Revolution that aired on July 4. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=382&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Raps Theoretical Unification</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beats and Breath's interview with Egyptian rapper Mohammed el Deeb aka Deeb released in June contended that the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa had a galvanizing effect with Arab hip-hop heads worldwide. But has this been the spark for a Pan-Arab hip-hop movement? I put this piece out there in the context of the rap contributions to the current revolution(s).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=353&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zeid Hamdan -independent music scion -talks about his arrest over the song “General Suleiman”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackson allers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger and music scholar Angie Nassar writes on the Beirut-based website NOWLebanon about the government detention and subsequent release of Zeid Hamdan - the self-described "gardener" of the independent music scene in Lebanon, co-founder of the electro-Arab fusion act Soap Kills and his most recent musical venture Zeid and the Wings. (We featured Zeid in a Beats and Breath article in March 2010.)

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		<title>TIME MAGAZINE repost: Syrian Rappers Urge &#8230; Restraint? Protesters Find Little Support in Popular Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an article written by Rania Abouzeid for TIME Magazine ©. I am reposting it here to frame the controversy that has erupted over this article, which was a spin-off to a post put on Greg Schick's website World Hip-Hop Market.com. The post was about the stance on the Syrian unrest from a good friend, Syrian-Lebanese MC Eslam Jawaad, that led to another conversation between he and I a short time later on this blog. I'm not sure I was prepared for the ripple effects that have occurred, and the strain put on the Arab hip-hop movement.

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		<title>Movements.org &#8211; Hip Hop’s Responses to the Arab Awakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 12:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackson allers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was written by Holiday Dmitri for the website Movements.org. &#8220;Movements.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, connecting, and supporting grassroots digital activists from around the world. We match members of our global network with necessary resources from the technology, media, private and public sectors in order to help them build capacity. The organization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonallers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10503787&amp;post=336&amp;subd=jacksonallers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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