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Bread Arabic bread is typically flat, round, hollow, and unleavened, but it is the forerunner of loaf-style breads eaten in Europe and in America
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posted on: Nov 19, 2014
“Taqasim,” the improvising scale of Arab music is the forerunner of modern American jazz.