This article focuses onward North African Rai music as a fertile and explosive site of form relative to sexed and transnational Maghrebi identity.

This article focuses onward North African Rai music as a fertile and explosive site of form relative to sexed and transnational Maghrebi identity, exploring sum of two units separate yet related paths. The first is the "Rai versus Islam" binary, which the article demonstrates to be a falsely originateed combat zone that serves to further the political interests of the FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) the FLN (National Liberation Front) and the financial interests of the Western music industry. The next to the first focus is on the character of gender in Rai, and the increasing masculinization of the genre The article's goal is to reveal the complicate intersections of ...