| Satire, political cartoons, rai music, and a rich political slang in dialectical Arabic provide outlets for political sentiment. |
| With unparalleled vocal skills and musical imagination, Khaled was the man who took Algerian rai music into the mainstream. |
| He moved to Paris in 1989, after having established himself as one of the pioneering figures of the rai movement in his homeland. |
| The religious zealots see rai music as the apotheosis of a secular culture they consider lewd and impious. |
| And he rode thus into rai Bareilly, watchful, determined, ready for any emergency. |
| Music, of course, is another intensely important arena, particularly so these days in North Africa and France, where rai music has made the pop charts. |
