Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History: Part 1

In his acclaimed new book “When we Were Arabs,” Los-Angeles-born journalist and author Massoud Hayoun recounts one north African family’s epic journey, step by step, from Tunisia all the way to California after it was senselessly uprooted from its ancestral lands and catapulted into a cold new world by two successive waves of European colonialism.

Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Tarek YamaniSamriasPeninsularEdict Records
Amerigo GazawayInner City Travellin' ManYasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One)
Marvin GayeInner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)True Chillout (3CD set)Spectrum