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When Arabs danced

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Jawad Rhalib

Mourade Zeguendi, Hiam Abbass, Sachli Golamalizad, Farah Bakkali, LaDiva Live, Naima Zitane, Rayess Bek, Randa Mirza & Karima Mansour

A fundamentalist hates life. For him, it presents temptation, a moving away from God and a loss of time before the celestial paradise with its rivers flowing with milk of eternal taste, its streams of wine, its delights and its virgins. Life is the product of disobedience and this disobedience is the work of the ARTIST. The fundamentalist resents the artist, who gives life to matter and leads pure souls away from paradise with sick ideas, a devilish drawing, a bewitching song or an evil dance… The artist is, therefor, the devil and in order to be able to kill him, the fundamentalist labels him the enemy of Allah. Formerly carefree, the Arab-Muslim world has...

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