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...The dreamy “I Burn For You” references the impact of seeing drummer Omar Hakim raising the crowd with Sting. And “Fly”, the album’s elegiac closer, celebrates Smith finally on the road....
...“On the [east] side there are schools and salaries,” complained Abu Omar, 58, a worker from west Mosul. By contrast in the west, “two years have passed and nothing”....
...“One man was worried because of his [Sunni] name – Omar – but they are all concerned about the security situation and are not sure what will happen.”...
...Bassist Darryl Jones and drummer Omar Hakim laid down the crunchy riffs and heavily decorated backbeats of Davis’s last decade, Roney’s pinched stabs and whispered mutters conveying both sorrow and joy....
...The judges have also summonsed as a witness Samy Anan, the army chief of staff, and Omar Suleiman, the former head of intelligence, who also served as vice-president during Mr Mubarak’s final days in office...
...The Trio of OZ – O for drummer Omar Hakim and Z for pianist Rachel Z, with Solomon Dorsey on bass at this gig – interpret rock and pop classics through the intricacies of the classic jazz piano trio....
...It featured the pyrotechnic flare of drummer Omar Hakim – introduced, not inconceivably, as “the best drummer in the world” – and any musician would need to be on their mettle simply to keep up....
...Hakim and the rest of the troupe escaped to Syria....
...Alaa Omar Mohamed, a law professor, said he was concerned that most voters would “just memorise the number 169 without even knowing the candidates”....
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