Rachid
Taha is an Algerian rock musician living in Paris. I'm only just now
starting to get acquainted with his work (including one really
excellent song: "Kelma") but I noticed this
interview with him in the New York Times.
...It's a song that puts Mr. Taha in mind of those archetypal combatants, Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush.
"The irony is, they're so similar - they're twin brothers," he says. "They're both wealthy religious fundamentalists from oil-producing desert states. It's like watching an argument between two Bedouins. The only difference between them is one drives an S.U.V., the other rides a dromedary."
I don't know if he was the first one to come up with it, but,
damn. I like it (and how many other people would use the word
"dromedary" in a sentence these days?)
