kaddish in two-part harmony
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daily kaddish: el shehadah
My business trip to Paris continued, and fortunately Mira bailed me out for a night by doing this recitation of the Muslim prayer “El Shehadah” and the Jewish Mourner’s prayer “Kaddish.” Continue reading
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Tagged Algeria, Egypt, El Shehadah, Libya, Morocco, Paris, Tunisia
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daily kaddish: for those who die in bondage
On Erev Pesach, a Kaddish for those who don’t escape bondage—for those who have died in bondage, recently and throughout history, and especially for those who have died in the recent uprisings in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia… Continue reading
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Tagged bondage, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, uprisings, Yemen
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daily kaddish: all that unrest in the Middle East
When even a Middle East expert chains them all together like that, it’s no wonder I feel overwhelmed, and my problem is embarrassingly trivial next to the problems of all those people who are trying to live through all this. And then there are all those people who are not living through all this—who are dying in all this.
A Kaddish for all of them. Continue reading
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Tagged Bahrain, death and dying, Egypt, Libya, Middle East, Tunisia, unrest, Yemen
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the little country that could — a kaddish for mohamed bouazizi and ibn khaldun’s oscillation of elites
Once upon a time there was a little country. It hadn’t always been a little country, but it had for the most part been an outlier in the larger scheme of things. It prided itself on being the ‘breadbasket of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourguiba, death and dying, Egypt, Middle East, Mohamed Bouazizi, North Africa, Tunisia
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