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The Dying Art of Belly Dancing in Conservative Egypt
Photos courtesy of Luna, an American belly dancer in Egypt At the Scheherezade club in Cairo’s downtown district, five paying customers and a dozen staff sat and gawped as the belly dancer shimmied...
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Five Ways Tony Abbott can Make it up to the Indonesian President
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We Went to the McDonald's Build-Your-Own-Burger Test Restaurant
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Black-Gold Blues
Smoke-spewing makeshift refineries dot the desert landscape around Deir ez-Zor. Deir ez-Zor, Syria’s sixth-largest city, is also the country’s oil capital. For four decades, the al-Assad regime (first...
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Egypt's Mohamed Mahmoud Anniversary Protests Were Pretty Surreal
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Portrait of the Marquis de Sade as a Young Female Hacker
Sometimes when I’m bored I like to go to the grocery store or the mall and stand around trying to figure out who people are. Or I’ll try to guess where someone might have been before they came to the...
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week Reihan sits down with unconventional nonprofit extraordinaire Nancy Lublin, who thinks that all social change should be rebellious, loud, and...
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The PR Guru Behind the Pope Who Is Charming the World
Greg Burke, the Pope's PR chief, speaking at the World Communications Day Lecture and Mass (photo via Catholic Church England and Wales) On Wednesday, Pope Francis interrupted his general audience in...
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The VICE Reader: What Your Favorite Writers Listen to When They Sweat
Photo via Flickr user Bigbadvoo I’ve often wondered what other writers do for exercise—and what music they listen to when they do. Does a topless Salman Rushdie orgasm-face his way through pull-ups,...
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Peter Beste Put the Houston Rap Scene into a Book
Mike Jones, Northside, 2008 Back in 2008, VICE released Peter Beste's photo book, True Norwegian Black Metal. Thanks to Satan, the book was a runaway success. So much so that we asked Peter to help us...
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New York State of Mind: Double Trouble in Little China
Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up out of the five boroughs with an even more unique style and approach to the...
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Exploring the Depressing House of Michael Jackson's Disgraced Dermatologist
Having visited a handful of them (and never, mind you, under positive circumstances), I can confidently state that the homes of Hollywood's countless hangers-on are all the same. The following ratio,...
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In part two of the Geoff Rowley series, he talks about moving to California with the Flip team, skating with the Tempster, shooting pics with Sturt, and how slamming is almost as good as the make....
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