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 DRUMMER, DJ & ORATOR KARIM NAGI GUIDES YOU ON AN ALTERNATIVE TOUR OF THE ARAB WORLD & ARAB DIASPORA. USING RHYTHM & VERSE KARIM DESCRIBES REVOLUTION, RECREATION, IMMIGRATION, PROFILING, FOOD, DANCE, MUSIC & MORE. ARAB LIFE IS RECOUNTED USING MODERN STORYTELLING, PERCUSSION & AN URBAN REMIX SOUNDSCAPE. ORIGINAL ART & VIDEO COMPLETE THE ITINERARY. EDUCATIONAL & GROOVEWORTHY, IT IS THE PERFECT TRIP. Qantara . Monolith Cocjtail . Midwest Record . Sound Roots . Roots World . |
"Detour Guide is an extraordinary work from the mind and heart of an extremely gifted and talented artist. It introduces us to an Arab world we never see in the movies or television news." Qantara.de "It is an adventure worth taking. Nagi's lyrics are intriguing, barbed and catchy." rootsworld.com "Karim Nagi seeks to confound critics and the ignorant alike with a humorous musical whirlwind detour through the social and geopolitics of the Middle East." monolithcocktail.com |
THEATER PERFORMANCE  The live stage production of Detour Guide is on tour after a successful world premier in Chicago. MUSICAL PLAY <> BOOKING <> |
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#5 - EVERYONE DABKE filmed in Colombia, Sardinia, L.A. & Maine
Stomping To The Sound Of The Tabli Singing Or Shouting A Melody Holding Hands Because We Are Family This Is The Dance For Everyone Called Dabke  |
#7 - ORIENTAL MAGIC CARPET filmed in Boston, with projected archives
...Delacroix Painting Naked Harem Feist Of A Place South of Europe Yet Labeled East Arabian Persian Indian Chinese Thai All Close Enough For A Carpet To Fly The East Goes From Morocco To Japan But The West Goes From Austria to Washington ? Anything Exotic Is Labeled "The Orient" And Most Of The World Lives In That Nomad's Tent...  |
#11 - BALADI TUKTUK filmed in Cairo, Alexandria & Boston
He Was An Immigrant In America Serving Canned Hummus, It's A Joke Joke So He Left Aladdin's Back To Cairo Now He Drives His Own TukTuk He Worked 18 Hours, Just Broke Even Spare Cash Bought Hookah Smoke Smoke Now He's Back In The Homeland, Self-Employed With A Pimped-Out Baladi TukTuk  |
#12 - IF I WERE HUMMUS filmed in Chicago
If I Were Hummus And You Were A Pita I would Spread Myself All Over You But Food Is Not All We Can Do I Am Not Aladdin, Jafar of Jasmin These Cartoons I Have Never Been And His Real Name Is Aala id Deen  |
DETOUR GUIDE Book Pages with Audio 1) Take a Ride with the Detour Guide [@ 0:00] 2) Your First Arab [@ 1:05] 3) Yalla Yalla [@ 2:35] 4) What Arabs Do For Fun [@ 7:48] 5) Everyone Dabke [@ 9:43] 6) ReOrientalism [@ 12:50] 7) Oriental Magic Carpet [@ 14:37] 8) This Is Arab Love [@ 17:53] 9) Heartfull of Cairo (f/ Pleasant Gehman)[@ 19:48] 10) Earn Learn Return [@ 23:31] 11) Baladi TukTuk [@ 25:08] 12) If I Were Hummus [@ 29:24]  
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