only a matter of time

When I was growing up I got used to Iraq dominating headlines a lot of the time, so when I got older and went to college and started reading up on history I was surprised to find out how peripheral Iraq is considered in the Middle East in the last few hundred years and how Egypt-centric everything was(for obvious reasons.) That goes culturally as well cause I expected most arabs would know the same singers I do, and all the songs I took for granted but that isn't always the case. Iraq being deficient in the Rotana pop stars category (not really a bad thing)doesn't help matters much. Meanwhile North American press is youth culture obsessed so for every 50 or so articles I read or get sent about OMG metal/emo/indie/electrorap IN ARABIC I was just wishing that someone would play me the classics. Of course somebody already was, I just hadn't found them yet. Enjoy:

Qurna - Mukhalef from zab on Vimeo.

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