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NADIA ALI The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it ...
NADIA ALI I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebano...
NADIA ALI As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
NADIA ALI I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
NADIA ALI I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b...
NADIA ALI Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me...
NADIA ALI I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou...
NADIA ALI Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance...
NADIA ALI How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo...
ALI SMITH Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves
- except, ...
ALI SMITH We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance.
AISHA ALI It's normal to move the pelvis. It's not meant to be lascivious. It's meant to be a form of everyday...
AISHA ALI Eventually they get interested in all the different kinds of music we play...and they want to know a...
AISHA ALI The neck moves and the shoulders move and the chest lifts and the diaphragm lifts. The pelvis goes u...
AISHA ALI The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the...
AHMED ALI Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go t...
AHMED ALI