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An Emirati mourns the death of his mother: Tears fill the emptiness of my soul as I enter your house

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“May Allah have mercy on your mother. In life I loved you very much, in death I still love you. ‘ Image source: Abdulla Rasheed / Gulf News Almost a week has passed since your death and I have avoided it and am afraid to enter your house, may Allah have mercy on you. Again … Read more

With ‘Summer of Soul,’ Questlove Wants to Fill a Cultural Void

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Twenty years later I received a message asking me to meet with my two future producers Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein about a Harlem cultural festival that was like a “Black Woodstock”. Immediately the music snob inside of me said, “I’ve never heard of that before.” So I looked it up on the internet. It’s … Read more