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At least 80 acts and speak­ers have dropped out of the Texas event as part of a boy­cott against US weapons com­pa­nies.

Za­karia Ibrahim’s life saw the rise and fall of sim­simiyya mu­sic in Port Said, be­fore its reemer­gence in the rev­o­lu­tion.

The con­test prides it­self on be­ing non­po­lit­i­cal, but Is­rael’s in­clu­sion threat­ens to over­shad­ow the mu­sic this year.