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Casablanca: When refugees were glamorous

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Samira Ahmed

This was written for the Spectator Coffee House blog, ahead of the Casablanca night at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on June 22nd, to mark Refugee Week.  “I don’t buy and sell human beings,” says Rick to the rival club … Continue reading →

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Half Blood Blues: Jazz, race and Nazis.

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Samira Ahmed

When I worked in Berlin in 1998 the trendy record store in the city’s gay-friendly Schoneberg district had a category called “schwarz”(black) music. It took up a lot of the shop and seemed a bizarrely useless generalisation, given the huge … Continue reading →

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