David McMurray

Bio: 

An editor of this magazine, David McMurray teaches anthropology at Oregon State University.


Articles by this Author
Recent Trends in Middle Eastern Migration

Although the history of Middle Eastern labor migration to North America is not as well known as that of Irish and Southern European immigrants, Yemenis were working in Detroit by the 1920s and Palestinian and Lebanese diasporas existed around the...

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Rai, Rap and Ramadan Nights

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Rai Ride Rising

Two Algerian rai tunes make the top ten of the Village Voice music critics’s poll in 1989. Rai is now heard daily on college radio from the University of Pennsylvania to Oregon State. Urban dance clubs with “world music...

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