My latest single, Failing Upward, is now available everywhere that music streams, including Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and wherever else. Best case is this song speaks for itself. Because I have […]

  Here’s a gem that has been lurking in my catalog for the better part of 20 years, albeit mostly unfinished, despite it being a more or less constant fixture […]

(This was also posted at Medium on August 18, 2019. My latest single, Free Palestine, is streaming here, here and here.) Palestine In The Grip Of Zionism When Jewish American […]

(This was also posted at Medium on July 2, 2018. My latest single, Don’t Let The Facts Get In The Way, is streaming here, here and here.) At the dawn of the Trump era, distinguished intellectual Francis Fukuyama announced […]

 (This post originally appeared on Huffington Post on March 7, 2017. Khalid Hanifi’s latest single, Lily Pads, is available wherever music is streamed or sold.) Yes, probably too much excitement for […]

(This post originally appeared on Huffington Post on September 14, 2016. Khalid ‘s latest single, Billion Dollar Drag, is available wherever music is sold or streamed.) Ah, the United States of America, […]

 (this post originally appeared on Huffington Post on June 4, 2015) One afternoon in early 1973, hearing what sounded like an auditorium full of laughter roaring out of my older sister […]

(this post originally appeared on Huffington Post on January 6, 2015) Major General Smedley Butler will have been dead for 75 years this coming June, and was this country’s most […]

(this post originally appeared on Huffington Post on September 6, 2013) One summer afternoon in the late ’70s, I recall visiting a friend who had just received Pong as a […]

    (this post originally appeared on Huffington Post, on August 2, 2013) On February 2, 2010, Nasser Awlaki, the late Anwar Al-Awlaki’s father, wrote an impassioned letter to Barak Obama, pleading […]