Released in 1982, off The Clash’s fifth album Combat Rock, “Rock the Casbah” made its radio rounds and got the then-obligatory video rotation on MTV, quickly becoming the biggest U.S. hit ...

Set in the Gaza Strip circa 1989, at the height of the first Intifada, war-is-hell drama "Rock the Casbah" illustrates the futility of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The action kicks off as a ...

When we asked him how he wrote “Rock The Casbah,” he delighted us by sitting down at his piano and playing the initial sketch of the song he presented to the band in 1981. Click to listen to T ...

In “Rock the Casbah,” she provides invaluable context for what she rightly terms “the epic convulsion across the Islamic world” by listening to voices we don’t usually hear. Wright ...

"Rock the Casbah," then, is an introduction to the Muslim world 10 years after 9/11, and the author's purpose is partly to illuminate and partly to instruct. From Wright’s perspective ...