Mixing modern and traditional

I get a kick out of young women in hijab with wires wrapped around their veils.

'What are you listening to," I asked a young staff at our newspaper in Algiers recently. "The Koran," she told me.

Then just as I'm thinking, wow, I can't image an American reporter tuning into the Bible on his MP3 player while at work, even a born-again, I mean how would you concentrate on it, and would it really be that moving ... she added, softly: "and Tracy Chapman....

and a little Celine Dion..."