Sahra

Q Magazine (1/98, p.113) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997."
Spin (8/97, p.118) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Khaled's latest album shows how those years in exile [from Algeria] have changed him. SAHRA moves further away from the brittle intensity of his early sound and toward pan-Meditteranean pop....Linking hands across the diaspora, Khaled reveals that global fame may smooth his edges, but it will never erase his roots."
Q Magazine (6/97, p.134) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...the sound is bright, polished and commercial, the more disinctive material....providing the best background for Khaled's top-flight Islamic vocals."
Option (9-10/97, p.102) - "...Khaled's voice on this disc is as mesmerizing as ever...his songs retain the North African urgency which make his music both exotic and inviting..."
Jazz Times (8/97, p.72) - "...happily fuses different musical impulses--in this case, middle eastern influences, dance feverishness and western ideas. Khaled has the passion and flexibility to capture a mass audience....a package that goes down smooth, but without losing the feisty pulse of rai..."