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Rhyme and Rhythm

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by
Marc Tracy
June 17, 2011

He used to be one of the top emcees in New York City’s underground hip-hop scene. Now he is getting a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. And, yeah, he’s Jewish, although he feels it’s more complicated than that. Meet Siah, a.k.a. Nadav Samin, and read his profile by Bethlehem Shoals today in Tablet Magazine.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.