A couple of days ago I received a terse email that I intended to visit a link “I think you may find interesting”, said. Of course, click, and began a journey that I have not yet returned.

The place I'm visiting, the project-universe that I have caught since, is calledDj Cinnamoon.

Let the amazing… but easy:

Dj Cinnamoon the universe impossible and nonnegotiable a DJ specializing in Cartagena Cassette tapes. Brutal. Tapes, also, largely from a East including Armenians, Jews, Greek, Assyrians Anatol y, among many other. Huge.

Are added here, therefore, much love: el kitsch, the border and the transcultural. And the music, clearly. Items more than enough to make this project an interesting proposal.

But there is more: this is, as I, the easy part. The hard part is explaining why Dj Cinnamoon is different from the other border kitsch musical projects I've seen yet (and include, for example, Cleopatra universe Natacha Atlas).

Explaining the Arab world through Islam is like explaining Spain through the paella: an easy but completely cross-eyed.The so-called Arab world are 22 countries and 250 million people, even many Arabs (as amazigh North Africa) and many do not even Muslim (as maronitas Lebanese, the Copts Egyptian, the Jewseverywhere and lay from anywhere).Seen this way we could ask what they have in common a Jewish girl and a boy of Damascus Berber of Algeria? One possible answer is that they share the myth, heroes.

Years ago I say and write that we can not talk Arab World and proposeArab Worlds to designate the band of countries stretching from Morocco to Iraq (without Iran and Turkey, stubbornly Arabized by the Spanish press) and share language which they are named. Arab Worlds, plural, precisely to emphasize that, plurality, diversity. Neither the Arab world is Arabic, not everyone speaks in Arabic Arabic, or the Arab world (the other quid the question) a Muslim.

However, I'm rethinking the name given the revolutions and protests that take place these days in Tunis, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia…

Is the Arab World?

If l @ s @ s Egipci have caught tunecid l @ s @ s is because they have been considered a sister. If ell @ s can, WE 's also. It is the solidarity of those who are up to the bow, yes, and the proof is that the Chinese government has been quick to censor the word “Egypt” search engine. It is also more.

The Arab world is diverse, clearly. But I understand that now the Copts, which are claimed descendants of the Pharaohs, do not feel different from chaouis, or these damn about them having different origins to Arab yemenitas.

There is a unique culture, no single language, not a single religion in the Arab World. But the feeling of being have their own place, apart.

The chiefs forgot maximum“divide and conquer”, standardize and bet on dissent by acallar, by crushing the difference.

Now several have forgotten who they are and have understood, finally, have a common. And they have it indoors.