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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Culture | Madad, peace et love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | And though Mounir has less of the kind of charisma needed to carry presence-energy across a wide open space than do his musicians, particularly percussionists and trumpet, his fans are focused on his diminutive figure, are happy that he, their friend, is there. |
 | | Mounir on Muslim mysticism: "Sufism welcomes reggae;" "Sufism is sukar, sugar." Forget the dark nights of the soul, the impossible discipline of annihilating ego. |
 | | If Mounir's most recent warm pastoral does not tease us out of thought, does not quite make a lunge for the guts, a stab at the heart, it will have at least reintroduced an old word into the vocabulary of Egypt's urban young: madad. |
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