-CKUT Radio Interview by Samira Rahmani (4/2005)
-KPFA interview "Hard Knock Radio" (2/7/05)
-BBC Interview World Service Program (7/18/04)
-10 minute excerpt from the April, 2004 Cairo show
-KPFA Radio Interview, Voices of the Middle East (1/21/04)
PRINT and WEB
-"Hip-Hop Nation" by Josephine Zohny Zink Magazine,
Summer, 2006 (jpg)
-"Muslims Protest Palestinian Anniversary" Stanford Daily
(5/06)
-"South Central? South Bronx? No, It's the Middle East." by
Natalie Carney, Egypt Today (10/05)"
-"Homegrown hip-hop ctaching on among young
Palestinians" by Dion Nissenbaum Knight-Ridder
newspapers (9/28/05)
-MUSIC REVIEW Left Turn (8-9/2005) - not on-line
-"Proud Icon" by Leila Saada, Al-Ahram (Egypt) (5/2005)
-"A Night of Wild Music in Ann Arbor" by Ali Moossavi
Arab-American News
-"Arab American Raps for Peace" by Lindsey Taulbee, The
Independent Alligator (University of Florida) (3/31/05)
-"Hip-Hop Gets Political" by Amber Rayon-Justin, The Golden
gate [X]Press (3/10/05)
-"Iron Sheik bridges activism, music" interview in Madison
Observer (Thanks El Guante) (1/25/05)
-"Iron Men" by Rachel Swan in the East Bay Express (1/12/05)
-"Terror, Torture and Imprisonment" by Panco McFarland,
Bad Subjects (12/04)
-"Hip-Hop et keffieh" Rolling Stone (France) (12/04)
-The Article
-The Photo
-"Mourning the Loss of a Symbol" by Mary Beth Sheridan and
Caryle Murphy, Washington Post (brief mention) (11/12/04)
-"Palestinian-American seduces youth with hip-hop, political
lyrics." Daily Star (Lebanon) (10/07/04)
-"The Iron Sheik (aka Will Youmans)" An Interview with M.
Junaid Alam in Counterpunch (7/31/04)
-"The Iron Sheik" San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (8/04)
-front page
-magazine cover
-Interview with Forum & Link (Dearborn, MI) (7/04)
-"Oakland Rapper Draws Attention to the Long Plight of
Palestinians" Oakland Tribune
-scanned copy
-Sheik "Fit to Print" in the New York Times (7/09/04)
-scanned copy
-Anti-Sheik Letter: "Festival Took Ugly Turn" Dearborn Press
& Guide (6/23/04)
-"Iron Sheik to drop some rhymes at Arab fest" by Mary
Louise Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (9/12/03)
-"Breach in Peace" (Baltimore's ottobar cancels show) by
Waris Banks, City Paper, (7/2/03)
-A letter on the Ottobar incident by Scott Loughrey
-In Print Only: Spring/Summer 2003 issue of Al-Jadid
-"Straight Outta Dearborn" by Ali Moosavi, WSU's South End
Press (6/9/03)
-"From Grad School to Ghetto" by Jawad Ali, Muslim Wakeup
(3/2003) no longer on-line (but referred to here)
-"New Pro-Palestinian Rap Artist" Profile by ADC
links
bio
-Drawing of Iron Sheik by a
young Native American
brother during a
performance at Yankton
High School, South Dakota.
-Japanese website
translates the Sheik. Much
thanks to Makiko Nakano.
PRESS KIT (pdf file)
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