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Filed under: Around the World Khaled , the king of Algerian Rai music, is gearing up for a pretty amazing November concert. He'll be headlining a show that brings artists from across the Arab and North African world, some veterans, some newcomers, gathered fittingly at a noted desert oasis. Er ... Las Vegas. "I expect Las Vegas to be for this one night the capital of Rai & Roll," says the emotive singer, who has revolutionized his birth nation's folk-pop music several times in a career stretching [...]