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Sights & Sounds
The nay is a notoriously difficult instrument, which tends to be a point of pride for Cairo’s nayatiyya, or nay players.
At the height of the Silent Intifada in 2014, three Jerusalem performance artists demonstrate how art can pick up where the conversation stops.
On one hot August evening, A Tribe Called Red turned the National Museum of the American Indian into a dance party.
As curators Adrian Loving and Vikki Tobak explore in their FotoWeekDC exhibition, nowhere did a communal space emerge as acutely as in the city’s underground clubs.
In India, millions of self-employed worker use the street to earn a living. Although they are marginalized, they do not exist in the margins.
Una vez al año, la gente se reúne en El Parque de la Amistad en San Diego, California, y Tijuana, México, para una ocasión feliz: el Fandango Fronterizo.
Once a year, people gather at Friendship Park in San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico, for a joyous occasion: the Fandango Fronterizo, or border fandango.
What happens when a gang in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, decides they’ve had enough of violence and oppression?
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