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An Iraqi vegetable vendor prepares for the upcoming festival of Ashura in January, 2008. Behind him are portraits of Imam Hussein, whose death Ashura commemorates.

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African American, Woman, Leader — Meeting Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie

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Music Played

Album Art Awakening
Joseph Curiale
"Multiples of One"
Orchard Road
Album Art Ney Navâ + Avây-e mehr + Nowruz & Savârân-e dasht-e omid
Hossein Alizeadeh
"Dance of Sama"
Album Art The Second Baghdad
Rahim Alhaj
"Dream"
"The Second Baghdad"
Magnetic Fields
Album Art Shy Angels: Reconstruction And Mix Translation Of Madman Of God
Sussan Deyhim
"Meykhaneh"
Crammed Disc Us
Album Art Yeraz
Trygve Seim, Frode Haltli
"L'Altra Storia"
Ecm
Album Art The Wind
Kayhan Kalhor
"VIII"
Ecm
Album Art Melos
Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Anja Lechner, U. T. Gandhi
"Sayyid Dance"
Ecm
Album Art Bon Voyage
United Future Organization
"Pilgrims"
Instinct Records
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