The Nahmias Cipher Report

North African and Middle Eastern Diaspora music videos featuring Rai and traditional Arabic musical styles. Also, featured are contemporary Arabic music by Egyptian and Turkish female singers. These videos display the diversity of Muslim people and the role of women in that society.

Just as Johnson’s speech promoted the ideals of change and egalitarianism, many American’s hoped the current Obama administration would be able, in a few short months, to change the course of an American history built upon a foundation of inequity.

That which eats you up is in your clothing. — Swahili Proverb

It is truly amazing to me, how the more things change, the more they stay the same. As one who remembers history, I like to use the analogy of the theatre: the backdrops have been switched out, new props installed, the old actors have transitioned their roles to understudies, and the show goes on.

An insidious killer spread by man’s basic nature, where upon in a process of creation, victims assassinate themselves.

“You reveler, do things in moderation; if the string of life is cut there is no retying it.” Yoruba Proverb

ZRUBAVEL is the first feature film created by a team of Ethiopian-Israeli filmmakers. In this poignant story of one Ethiopian family’s struggle to become Israeli, a chain of events ignites a clash of generations and reveals a universal story of family conflicts, assimilation and personal identity. First Prize, Drama, Haifa International Film Festival 2008. Israel, 2008, 72 minutes, Hebrew and Amharic with English subtitles.

Racism in all of its manifestations is reprehensible, yet individuals afflicted with this particular malaise always seem to find a justification for their prejudice, which allows them to assert that they are not racist. We all have our particular preferences and biases, and I am not immune.