Worth Repeating: Muslim and Jewish Algerian Musicians Reunite After Fifty Years

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/11/13: 

“A chance encounter between a tourist and a mirror maker in an Algerian bazaar led to the reuniting of Jewish and Muslim musicians — friends who’d been apart for 50 years. Now they’re touring the U.S.” Click here to read the fascinating story of how Safinez Bousbia, a young architect, spent almost ten years getting the group of musicians back together, then made an acclaimed feature-length documentary about their reunion called El Gusto. Video at the link, too.

 

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