Music Video

So as part of our effort to improve intercultural relations we made a video celebrating one thing Middle Easterners and Americans have an affinity for: trashy pop music. We downloaded a karaoke version of "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys, borrowed some cheesy lyrics from various Arab pop songs, and after some effort recorded it. "Shabaab al-Haara" or "Back Alley Male Youths" was born (we rendered a stilted translation both ways as part of the joke).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGA07Zb9kNw

Thanks to Aaron Rock, Brian Loo, Aatif Iqbal, and Scott Trigg for being part of the Male Youths, and thanks to EB Harper for letting us borrow her camera, and to Clay Adair, Mark Lomedico, and Dan Stoltz for letting us borrow their time to film us clowning around.