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Here are the Blogs in the Geoffrey Clarfield category. Friday, 17 May 2013
Mudar Zahran writes in Middle East Quarterly:
Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across the Middle East since the beginning of the year. But the relative calm in Amman is an illusion. The unspoken truth is that the Palestinians, the country's largest ...Read More...
Posted on 05/17/2013 2:55 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
Minus the Islam, they're just normal kids celebrating life - The love of a man for a woman.
...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2013 6:39 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Friday, 29 March 2013
BERLIN – French Arab youths assaulted Israeli film director Yariv Horowitz last week at a film festival in southern France.
From the Jerusalem Post:
The acclaimed director of the film Rock the Casbah lost consciousness as a result of the attack following the screening of his film last week. ...Read More...
Posted on 03/29/2013 10:29 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
As I turned off the highway to enter the town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, I could not contain my excitement. In my mind’s ear I could hear that classic 1970s hit song The Weight, penned by the Canadian born guitarist of The Band, Robbie Robertson:
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ ...Read More...
Posted on 12/12/2012 4:17 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
During the height of the Depression, folklorist Alan Lomax persuaded his employers at the Library of Congress to send him across the South to collect folk music. During his visits to Appalachia he recorded Appalachian folk music from both Anglo- and African-American musicians and singers, including ...Read More...
Posted on 11/07/2012 3:52 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Monday, 10 September 2012
In order to reach the lookout tower at the edge of the meadow, where more than one hundred forest elephants were cavorting in the mud, sand, water and salt, we had to pass through a shallow river on foot, sandals in hand. Two elephants blocked the way. Our Pygmy guides motioned for us to be still and ...Read More...
Posted on 09/10/2012 12:22 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Thursday, 10 May 2012
John Robert Colombo writes in the Cambridge Centre for Western Esotericism:
It is safe to say that the Gifford Lectureships are the outstanding series of lectures in their field of study, but it is also safe to say that their field of study is hardly the pre-eminent one that it once was. The series ...Read More...
Posted on 05/10/2012 3:20 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Today New York has a flourishing early-music scene, but just 60 years ago that was not the case. This March alone, concerts were performed here by resident ensembles with names like the New York Baroque Dance Company, the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble, Musica Viva, the Cisraritanian Consort of Viols, and ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 12:51 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Originally published in the NY Post December 27, 2008.
JERUSALEM
I AM sitting on stone stairs fac ing the Jaffa Gate, a 10-minute walk from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the traditional spot of the crucifixion. Christianity began here, some 2,000 years ago, and is still practiced here by ...Read More...
Posted on 04/26/2012 7:54 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Friday, 6 April 2012
Passover is that Jewish holiday that celebrates the Children of Israel’s Exodus out of Egypt, under their leader Moses. This year it has fallen on the week beginning Friday, April 6, which is the same day as Easter Friday. It is a springtime festival that commemorates a move from slavery ...Read More...
Posted on 04/06/2012 4:19 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Thursday, 22 March 2012
From outside Syria, it appears that a government is waging war against citizens who are demanding change and democracy. That is certainly how many media outlets are reporting the ongoing violence in that country. But as many Syrians know, this war is about something else entirely. Something much larger.
A ...Read More...
Posted on 03/22/2012 8:00 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Rachel Hirshfeld writes at Arutz Sheva:
Abe Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), wrote a letter to the President of Harvard University, Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust last week, condemning the “One State Conference” scheduled to take place at Harvard University’s ...Read More...
Posted on 02/28/2012 11:39 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Excuse me friends, I must catch my jet,
I’m off to join the development set.
My bags are packed, I’ve had all my shots,
I have traveller’s cheques, and pills for the trots.
The development set is bright and noble,
our thoughts are deep, our vision global.
Although we move with ...Read More...
Posted on 02/21/2012 5:14 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Monday, 16 January 2012
Charles Murray writes in Hillsdale College's excellent magazine Imprimus:
The following is adapted from a speech delivered in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 28, 2011, at a conference on “Markets, Government, and the Common Good,” sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Center ...Read More...
Posted on 01/16/2012 11:56 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Friday, 16 December 2011
Harry Brown is a dark, violent and dramatic British film directed by Daniel Barber, written by Gary Young and released in 2009, a full year before unprecedented urban riots broke out across England’s cities. At the time of its release reviewers at the British newspaper The Times considered it ...Read More...
Posted on 12/16/2011 4:32 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
As Bert Jansch just passed away this October it would be difficult to share with you all the ways that this Scottish guitarist and folk singer has been an inspiration to the music that I have played and listened to.
And so instead of writing about that, I would like to share this this ...Read More...
Posted on 10/11/2011 6:01 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Saturday, 24 September 2011
At a recent conference on ethnomusicology held in the U.S., I met an Arab researcher. His paper on traditional Arab music was indecipherable and full of postmodern jargon. After he finished his presentation, he confided to me in private, "We have to be careful what we say about music ...Read More...
Posted on 09/24/2011 8:02 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs. It seemed to them a worthy thing that such an honor should be given at their burial to the dead who have fallen on the field of battle. But I should have preferred that, when ...Read More...
Posted on 09/11/2011 11:33 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Italian Treasury: Folk Music and Song of Italy
It is an elegantly designed CD, simply titled, Folk Music and Song of Italy. On the cover is a black and white photo of four women in worn out 1940s-style clothing, standing arm and arm as they sing. This is a sampler from the 10-volume Italian Treasury ...Read More...
Posted on 07/23/2011 6:45 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Depending on your point of view, the war in Yemen can be explained in two ways. It’s a war in which a government that favours the largely Sunni citizens of the former “communist” state of southern Yemen is violently opposed by tribally based Shiites in what was once the independent ...Read More...
Posted on 06/11/2011 10:47 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The American government and its armed forces named the secret operation to kill Osama Bin Laden "Operation Geronimo." This was a major mistake. Geronomino and bin Laden are in many ways the complete opposite of each other.
The real Geronimo was an Apache Indian from the southwest of what ...Read More...
Posted on 05/10/2011 2:11 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Monday, 9 May 2011
With the war in Libya showing no sign of abating, we shouldn’t be surprised to discover that, as Moammar Gadhafi’s dictatorial hold weakens, two exiled Libyans are claiming to be the crown prince of that former European creation: the short-lived monarchy once called the Kingdom of Libya.
Libya ...Read More...
Posted on 05/09/2011 5:02 PM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Thursday, 5 May 2011
John Szwed, author of the recent biography of the late Alan Lomax, subtitled his book “The Man Who Recorded the World.” During his lifetime, Alan recorded thousands of hours of traditional music in the American South, the Caribbean, and Europe, while at the same time copying, archiving, ...Read More...
Posted on 05/05/2011 5:50 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Thursday, 21 April 2011
On Feb. 20, the world woke up to news that a group of Libyan rebels in the eastern part of the country (the coastal bulge known, since ancient times, as Cyrenaica) had risen up against Muammar Gaddafi. News outlets quickly framed the revolt as one of democracy activists versus a dictator, following ...Read More...
Posted on 04/21/2011 11:58 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
Saturday, 19 March 2011
The Arab world is in turmoil. The residents of Egypt and Tunisia have been driven out of office by people power. This week in Yemen, anti-government tribesmen killed four people, despite their President's pledge to step down. In Libya, a brief civil war is reaching its bloody conclusion. Even the ...Read More...
Posted on 03/19/2011 5:39 AM by Geoffrey Clarfield
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