In “Rock the Casbah,” she provides invaluable context for what she rightly terms “the epic convulsion across the Islamic world” by listening to voices we don’t usually hear. Wright ...

Omar Sharif — who’s appropriately acknowledged ... but not entirely for the reasons the surviving sisters assume. “Rock the Casbah” is at its most engaging when the well-cast three sisters ...

Released in 1982, off The Clash’s fifth album Combat Rock, “Rock the Casbah” made its radio rounds and got the then-obligatory video rotation on MTV, quickly becoming the biggest U.S. hit ...

"Rock the Casbah," then, is an introduction to the Muslim world 10 years after 9/11, and the author's purpose is partly to illuminate and partly to instruct. From Wright’s perspective ...

When we asked him how he wrote “Rock The Casbah,” he delighted us by sitting down at his piano and playing the initial sketch of the song he presented to the band in 1981. Click to listen to T ...

Strangely, this enjoyable, well-acted comedy-drama from the Moroccan writer-director Laila Marrakchi is the second film called Rock the Casbah to ... Egyptian legend Omar Sharif, still remarkably ...

French-Moroccan film Rock the Casbah – currently in its second week ... Al-Hassan – played by veteran Egyptian actor Omar El-Sharif – as he bestows his wisdom on life on the audience before ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It takes place in the Gaza Strip in 1989, when the first Intifada was underway. A group of young Israeli soldiers is bussed into a ...

The goal of the "Rock the Casbah: College of Arts and Sciences Summer Concert Series," new this year, is to enliven the university's North Campus during summer months, says Donald McGuire, CAS summer ...

In the Casbah, it was the not the best of times, but the worst. One can picture Madame De Farge mindlessly knitting as prisoners like Ali give rise to their fallen comrade's death cry ...