While not undefeated at this point, it’s been another near-perfect season for Oregon football. The loss against Indiana is the one blemish... Oregon men’s basketball (6-5, 0-2 Big Ten) earned a 94–69 ...
For Tahiirah Habibi, celebrated sommelier and entrepreneur, she first realized the power of wine when she was a college student. “In the beginning it was more of a survival thing,” she tells ESSENCE. ...
Golf is not for everybody, and thank goodness for that. But when the game sinks her teeth in you, they lodge. The game can change the course of your life. Maybe you get that. If you do, you’re already ...
Last month, Habibi released Anywhere But Here, the band's first full-length album since its self-titled debut in 2014. Just like that first record and the EPs and singles over the past six years, the ...
In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue’s ...
The 16 tracks that make up the latest Habibi Funk compilation are a heady fusion of sound and fervour. There is some psychedelic disco from Egypt. Other songs are electrified by the carnival energy of ...
Habibi was an active figure against the Shah’s regime. He took part in many anti-Shah demonstrations before the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He was jailed during that era. He had been ...
In the Lebanese-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s 1988 art film, Measures of Distance, slides of Hatoum’s mother showering in her Beirut apartment are overlaid with letters written in Arabic to her ...
About a year ago, Marc Fadel sat across from me as I burst his barbecue bubble. The then-eighteen-year-old begged for an honest assessment of the smoked meats from his three-week-old Habibi Barbecue ...
Mahmoud Sabla, owner of Habibi In Mediterranean Grill, opened his restaurant over two years ago to bring a hint of his Palestinian culture to Evanston. While Sabla said the journey has not been easy, ...