THE MUWASHSHAH:

History, Origins and Present Practices

An international weekend conference on

Arabic and Hebrew strophic poetry and its Romance parallels.

to be held at

the School of Oriental & African Studies [SOAS], University of London

Friday 8th – Sunday 10th October 2004

[The following is the list of people who have committed themselves to attend the Conference and present a paper. They are listed in alphabetical order.]

MUHAMMAD IKRAAM ABDU-NOOR [Yale University]: “Andalusian Strophic Poetry Between the Spoken and the Written: The Case of the Moroccan Andalusian Music Tradition” [Confirmed] [Summary]

KARIN ALMBLADH [Uppsala]: "Nasimu r-raudi faah: a muwashshaha and its contrafacts." A paper on mu´arada, including a comment on a Sufi poem. [Confirmed] [Summary]

AMATZIA BAR-YOSEF [Tel Aviv] “How are Today’s Middle Eastern Muwashshahat Andalusiyyah Connected with the Spanish Muwashshah?” [Not attending] [Summary]

SAADANE BENBAABALI [Sorbonne]: “Love and drunkenness in the muwashshsah as sung in the Maghreb”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

PHILIP CIANTAR [University of Malta]: “Nostalgia, History and Sheikhs in the Libyan ma'luf: Contemporary Meanings in the Shadows of the Past”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

FEDERICO CORRIENTE [Zaragoza]: "The metrical question: Which extended khalilean system?" [Confirmed] [Summary]

DINA DAHBANY-MIRAGLIA [CUNY] “The muwashshah in Yemenite Jewish Women's Poem-Songs” [Confirmed] [Summary]

RUTH DAVIS [Cambridge] with KATHRYN STAPLEY [Oxford] : “Linguistic and musical aspects of the Tunisian ma'luf ” [Confirmed] [Summary]

ED EMERY [UA]: A paper on “Maqamaat, Machberoth and Shadow Plays” [Confirmed] [Summary]

ZAKARIA ENANY [Cairo] A paper on “The terminology of the muwashshahaat”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

MARLE HAMMOND [Oxford]: “He Desires Her? Situating Nazhun's muwashshaha in an androgynous aesthetic of courtly love” [Confirmed] [Summary]

ULF HAXEN [Denmark]: “A hitherto unpublished Hebrew muwashshaha with an Arabic kharja.” [Confirmed] [Summary]

RICHARD HITCHCOCK [Exeter]: A paper on “The ‘Romance’ kharjas retrospectively”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

ALAN JONES [Oxford]: Title to be announced. [Confirmed]

ZVI MALACHI [Tel Aviv]: “Muwashshahat in Edmond Jafil`s Diwan al-Aghani, Algiers”. [Confirmed]

ANGELO MICHELE PIEMONTESE [La Sapienza, Rome]: "The muwashshah as an 'interwoven' poem, and its Persian tradition" [Confirmed] [Summary]

ANNA PLAKHOVA [Novosibirsk] “The Rast maqam in muwashshahaat” [Confirmed] [Summary]

DWIGHT REYNOLDS [Univ. California]: “Ibn Sana´ al-Mulk´s Mysterious `Organ´ and the Well-Composed Muwashshah: Two Musical Problems in Dar al-Tiraz” [Confirmed] [Summary]

ANGEL SAENZ-BADILLOS [Real Colegio Complutense, Mass.] “The late development of Hebrew muwashshah in Christian Iberia.” [Confirmed] [Summary]

ARIE SCHIPPERS [Amsterdam]: "Some remarks on the muwashshahaat of Abraham ibn Ezra ". [Confirmed] [Summary]

GREGOR SCHOELER [Basel]: “Neo-Persian stanzaic poetry and its relation to the Arabic musammat”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

EDWIN SEROUSSI [Jerusalem]: “Medieval Hebrew strophic poetry in the musical repertoires of the Moroccan Jews”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

MICHEL SLEIMAN [Brazil]: "The large (in extension) panegyrical zajal of Ibn Quzman". [Confirmed] [Summary]

YOSEF TOBI [Haifa]: “Muwashshah Muslim and Jewish Poetry in Yemen (15th-17th centuries)”. [Confirmed] [Summary]

OWEN WRIGHT [SOAS, London] Preliminary comments on “Musicological issues in relation to muwashshahaat”. [Confirmed]

OTTO ZWARTJES [Oslo]: A Bibliography of the muwashshahaat [Confirmed]

MUSICIANS AND PERFORMERS

BELINDA SYKES with JOGLARESA: Music of the muwashshahaat. [Performance] [Confirmed] [Details of programme] [Band’s website: http://www.joglaresa.com]

ABDELKADER HARIR and the HARIR BROTHERS BAND [London]: Muwashshahaat [Performance] [Confirmed] [Band’s website: http://www.harirband.co.uk]

JASON MELISSINOS [Athens]: A shadow-theatre performance based on the Tayf al-Khayal of Muhammad Ibn Daniyal. [Confirmed] [Website: http://www.geocities.com/muwashshah/melissinos.html]

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