<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a42f93f-a418-4b00-805d-85a1279cd829/F2CD6048-6E12-481A-AD29-C2915B6FC1D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/11/24/songs_of_struggle_survival_in_sahara/" href="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/11/24/songs_of_struggle_survival_in_sahara/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.boston.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/11/24/songs_of_struggle_survival_in_sahara/"><IMG width="539" height="384" border="0" alt="Mali's Tinariwen stops by the MFA tomorrow to deliver the message of the Tuareg people. This past summer, the band opened for the Rolling Stones in Dublin." title="Mali's Tinariwen stops by the MFA tomorrow to deliver the message of the Tuareg people. This past summer, the band opened for the Rolling Stones in Dublin." src="http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/11/23/1195863088_7835/539w.jpg" /> Mali's Tinariwen stops by the MFA tomorrow to deliver the message of the Tuareg people. This past summer, the band opened for the Rolling Stones in Dublin.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/11/24/songs_of_struggle_survival_in_sahara/">For many centuries the Tuaregs were the masters of the Sahara who played a vital economic and cultural role linking West and North Africa. When the great empires of Mali arose in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Tuaregs, or Kel Tamashek as they call themselves, helped make Timbuktu a thriving university town, where some of the world's most advanced scholars wrote treatises on mathematics, physics, medicine, and Sufi-inspired Islamic spirituality.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/11/24/songs_of_struggle_survival_in_sahara/">And now the rise of militant Islam poses a fresh threat to Tuareg society</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2007/11/24/songs_of_struggle_survival_in_sahara/">"The Art of Being Tuareg: Sahara Nomads in a Modern World." "I've known a lot of the leadership for many years, and they are absolutely opposed to fundamentalist Islam and Al Qaeda. The Tuareg are concerned about self-determination and maintaining values they think are important.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F2CD6048-6E12-481A-AD29-C2915B6FC1D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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