In the fictional drama “Timbuktu” (2014) a female singer is punished for her music, 40 lashes for singing and 40 lashes for being in the same room of her male accompanist. The film’s director and co-writer Abderrahmane Sissako says, “It is absurd to try to forbid music,” he says, “because if you try to suppress … Read More
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