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Yallah: Haim Botbol

Yallah: Haim Botbol

The concert was opened by the warm-up act 3yin (pronounced ‘eye-in’), a sextet of London-based musicians playing Iraqi, Egyptian and other Arabic or Judeo-Arabic music on Western and Arab instruments. Did I say warm-up? More like ‘heat-up’, as this enthusiastic group of…

Yallah: Day One

Yallah: Day One

“In Morocco, in Islam, Jews and Muslims are, in their thousands, enjoying being together. This may not be on the front page of any newspaper or what you watch on the TV, and of course it is not so black and white, but it’s something that should be shared.” Dr Andre Azoulay, counsellor…