What Algerian musical artist and activist's work was core to the rise of Algeria's indigenous pop music known raï in the 1980s and likely influenced the Clash's hit song "Rock the Casbah"?

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Rachid Taha. Rachid Taha once said 'New Orleans is like Algiers', noting that both had been French colonies and that Louisiana Zydeco drum patterns resembled North African rai music. His album Made in Medina was recorded in Paris, New Orleans, and London with the American jam band Galactic.