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Les Succes de Botbol Du Maroc 2 (CD, front cover), shows Botbol playing oud and singing with two violinists, a derbouka player and another oud player, all in white shirts with black bow-ties (Botbol also a suit jacket).

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Listening to Hachemi Gerouabi

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Les Succes de Botbol Du Maroc 2 (CD, front cover), shows Botbol playing oud and singing with two violinists, a derbouka player and another oud player, all in white shirts with black bow-ties (Botbol also a suit jacket).

Botbol’s Moroccan Hits

Enjoying this new Botbol CD on a snowy Sunday afternoon. No liner notes, though. Darn! But it does include the well-known Yah Rayah by Dahmane Harrachi: Hey, immigrant, where are you going? Sooner or later you will come back exhausted. Many ignorant people regretted this before you and me. How many overpopulated countries and empty…
Stop-Antisemitism

What You Can Do About Antisemitism

What You Can Do About Antisemitism 1.  Recognize, call out and act against antisemitism on the right      Antisemitism is central to right-wing movements.  People on the far right see Jews as the ones “pulling the strings” or “behind the scenes.”  Jews are seen as responsible for “the great replacement” of whites by people…
Booker questioning Barrett

On Objectivity: Amy Coney Barrett and Corey Booker

Corey Booker is so good here.  If we had to have centrist presidential and vice-presidential candidates (not my preference), I wish he had been one of them.  He has always had animating substantive moral commitments--to racial justice, to the environment--even though from my standpoint he caves too much to corporations.  Here, he gets Amy Coney Barrett,…
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Les Succes de Botbol Du Maroc 2 (CD, front cover), shows Botbol playing oud and singing with two violinists, a derbouka player and another oud player, all in white shirts with black bow-ties (Botbol also a suit jacket).
January 29, 2023

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