DJANET, Algeria — In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a shuffling “step-step” to the beat of drums and chanting from ...

Pioneers of desert blues, Tinariwen fuse Tuareg folk traditions with blues and rock — creating hypnotic, guitar-led music ...

Romanticised by nineteenth-century explorers as mysterious 'people of the veil', but with a reputation too as fearsome warriors, the Tuareg have been guardians of the Sahara for over one thousand ...

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, ...