Since its formation in 2008, Red Baraat’s distinctive sound has been attracting energetic audiences to clubs, festivals, and packed college auditoriums worldwide. The 8-piece band blends North Indian bhangra rhythms,...
B|ta'arof is a recently-launched arts and culture print magazine featuring a variety of work from the global Iranian diaspora. From classic images of ads from the 1970's to contemporary portraits of bachelors...
Argo - a political thriller based on the true story of a bizarre CIA mission to rescue six Americans during the 1980 hostage crisis in Tehran - is the critic’s pick in the New York Times, “one of the best films of 2012”...
Sublime Frequencies, the Seattle-based record label, are ethnomusicologists, documentarians and travellers who release music and film from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. With releases ranging from Singaporean or...
New York City’s dance floor culture rarely intersects with the world of community-based, social justice activism—but not always. The Brooklyn-based racial justice activist and DJ Thanu Yakupitayage, a.k.a. DJ Ushka, is...
Last week, the US State Department announced that it was shutting down a Pakistani-produced, USAID-funded version of "Sesame Street" amid allegations of fraud and corruption. The show featured an Urdu-speaking Elmo and...
