We aren’t the world

American culture is not dominating the globe

By Charles Paul Freund

In the mid-1990s, French filmmaker Claude Berri warned that without protection from the products of the American media, "European culture is finished." He had plenty of pessimistic company. French Cul

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Culture | Tuesday, April 29,2003

Paranoid pop

Music and modernization in the Arab world

By Charles Paul Freund

"Chechnya! Afghanistan! Palestine! Southern Lebanon! The Golan Heights! And now Iraq, too? And now Iraq, too? It's too much for people. Shame on you! Enough, enough, enough!" Are those angry words