Cheb i Sabbah
I was looking up Cheb i Sabbah since I’m going to be in San Francisco and he is an Algerian DJ who spins records in the Mission District. We saw him a few years ago, and had an awesome time at Bollyhood, the club he had become a regular at on Thursday nights. I first learned of him when Tatjana brought me a CD back from Istanbul. Sadly, in searching for him, I came across this website which is a campaign to raise money for him – he has Stage IV stomach cancer.
The bright spot is that the web was used to raise money for this global music celebrity and money was raised beyond the goal to help send him to a clinic in Germany. Perhaps all health care should move to the web, since the U.S. seems incapable of finding the compassion to offer health care uniformly to every one.
For now, I’m sending my thoughts to Cheb i Sabbah and hoping he overcomes his prognosis.