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Jewish-Muslim Chaabi Music

In Algiers before the outbreak of the Liberation War in 1954, Muslim and Jewish musicians made chaabi music together. The young Algerian-Irish director Safinez Bousbia has now documented their story and that of chaabi music in the award-winning film “El Gusto” (The Passion).

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