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...	MER211
Rai, Rap and Ramadan Nights		MER178
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...	MER169