Yet there is much about Biram Dah Abeid, a prominent anti-slavery activist from the North African nation of Mauritania, that confounds convention. In recent years Abeid has run for president of ...

Biram Dah Abeid was just 8 when he became aware of slavery in his home country of Mauritania. He saw a defenseless youth being beaten by a man—a common experience, his parents explained ...

The income of Arkansas farmers is trending in the positive direction for the first time in two years, but there's a catch. It ...

The Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid laughed when I asked him in an interview in December 2013, if he was concerned about his own safety. “I have been at risk for so long,” he ...

After three albums of lo-fi, scratchy, and distorted, Austin's Scott H. Biram has his sound upgraded somewhat on his debut for Chicago indie Bloodshot. Biram continues at the crossroads of blues ...

A two-year decline in Arkansas’ net farm income has been interrupted, but not because farming has suddenly become profitable ...

(RNS) — With a new coalition government in power in Israel, descendants of the residents of Iqrit and Biram have hopes of rebuilding the towns. IQRIT, Israel (RNS) — In October 1948 ...

Ghazouani, 67, won 56.12 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential poll, well ahead of his main rival, anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid, who won 22.10 percent, CENI said on ...

Biram hardly follows a formula. Rural as hell, urban in attitude, lonesome/orn'ry/mean, The Bad Testament is a primer in sin and redemption, hard love gone wrong, and blues and country influences ...

That it came from a guy who seemed like just another in the line of 21st century blues revivalists is a bit of a surprise but Biram has never let that tag stand in the way of his one-man crusade ...