Thornhaugh
Street, London WC 1H 0XG
Website: www.geocities.com/muwashshah
FRIDAY
EVENING 5 OCTOBER
A SPECIAL
PRE-CONFERENCE CONCERT
MOHAMMAD
ANTAR [Cairo Group for Sufi Chanting and Zikr]
Egyptian ney player, Mohammed Antar is a musical
composer, researcher and conductor of the Ensemble Munahah (formerly the Cairo
Group for Sufi Chanting and Zikr). His commitment to Middle Eastern
classical and traditional music, especially in relation to spiritual music, has
led him to master Arabic, Turkish and Persian ney playing techniques and styles.
TIME: 7.00PM
DATE: Friday
5 October
VENUE: ST
ETHELBURGA’S CHURCH, BISHOPSGATE (Tube: Liverpool Street)
ADMISSION:
£10
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SATURDAY
MORNING 6 OCTOBER
NAJIB COUTYA
[London]: “The Poetry of Sheikh Imam of Cairo”
DINA
DAHBANY-MIRAGLIA [City University of New York]: “Horses, Heroes
and Broken Hearts” [Abstract]
ED EMERY
[SOAS, London]: “The zajal in Lebanon
and Palestine” [Abstract]
MOHAMMAD
ANTAR [Cairo Group for Sufi Chanting and Zikr]: “The muwashshahaat of Ibn
al-‘Arabi” [Abstract]
SATURDAY
AFTERNOON 6 OCTOBER
FEDERICO
CORRIENTE [University of Zaragoza]: “A historical overview of
Muwashshah and Kharja theories”
GEORGE BEECH
University of Western
Michigan]: “Muslim Zaragoza as a focal point for the
transmission of Arabic, Jewish, and Romance culture to Christian Europe later
Middle Ages” [Abstract]
ARIE
SCHIPPERS [University of Amsterdam]: “Nissim ibn Shahin
(990-1062), Josef Ibn Zabbara (1131-1209), Petrus Alphonsi (1062-1121) and the
Medieval European Narrative Repertoire” [Abstract]
CARL DAVILA [SUNY]: “The ‘Other Andalusian Music’: Andalusi Strophic
Poetry in the Moroccan Samâ’ wa-Madîh“ [Abstract]
BENI MÜLLER [Switzerland]:
"Levant
– a Zajal in the Orient" [Film – 77 mins] [Abstract]
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SATURDAY
NIGHT MUWASHSHAH CONCERT
VENUE: Brunei Gallery Theatre
at SOAS
DATE: Saturday 6 October 2007
TIME:: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Performers:
MOHAMMED
ANTAR [Cairo Group for Sufi Chanting and Zikr; vocals and ney]
KALIA BAKLITZANAKI [SOAS; vocals] and ABDUL SALAM
KHEIR (oud)
NAJIB COUTYA [Lebanon, vocals and ud] and CAHIT BAYLAV [violin]: Songs of Sheikh Imam
Members of the BARDOS BAND, performing songs from the medieval
repertoire
REBECCA
AUSTEN-BROWN:
fiddle, flute
ARNGHEIR
HAUKSSON:
gittern
SOPHIA
BRUMFITT:
voice
Admission is free, with a
bucket collection afterwards. All seats must be reserved in advance by sending
an e-mail to ed.emery
[@] soas.ac.uk
SUNDAY 7
OCTOBER
SARA
MANASSEH [London]: “Poetry and Music in Shbahoth: the Muwashshah in
Babylonian Jewish Paraliturgical Song“ [Abstract]
SAADANE
BENBAABALI [Sorbonne]: “The Heirs of Ziryab in Paris: the artists
and associations working for the transmission of the Arab-Andalusi heritage in
France” [Abstract]
SUSANA
WEICH-SHAHAK [Hebrew University of Jerusalem]: “Zajal
structures in the repertoire of the Judeo-Spanish coplas oral tradition”
[Abstract]
YOSEF TOBI
[University of Haifa]: “Music
and Musical Instruments in Spanish Medieval Hebrew Poetry: The Praise Poem of
Yosef Ibn Saddīq (Justo)” [Abstract]
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Please note the following event, which is separate
from the main part of the conference.
THURSDAY EVENING
4 OCTOBER
SEMINAR: The Singing of Sheikh Imam of Cairo [Imam
Isa].
The evening will include
*
presentations of previously unavailable film and audio material
*
seminar presentations on the Sheikh and his work;
*
live performance of the Sheikh’s songs..
VENUE: School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS]
DATE: Thursday 4 October 2007
TIME: 7.00pm
to 10.00pm
Ends