SOAS ARABIC CHOIR
THE SONGBOOK
 

 
ARABIC
 
Ahieh [Ayman Helmy, Bahgaga Band, Egypt]
 https://youtu.be/ZIDopZ8z49Y
 
Bint el-shalabiyya [Fairuz – Lebanon] [Lyrics]
 https://youtu.be/hw7S2A3x9Qc
 
Fog elna khel [Nazem el-Ghazali – Iraq]
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFcTnyhCMo
 
Janna janna [ Syria]
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWibe4Ells
 
Lama bada yatathanna [Andalusi muwashshah]
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1eeZLiQM4
 
Nassam alayna al-hawa [Rahbani brothers, Fairuz – Lebanon]
 https://youtu.be/TUbQcxsJwWQ
 
Shayyid qsurak ‘al mazare‘ [Sheikh Imam – Cairo] [Lyrics]
 http://youtu.be/pWR9r7Keef0
 
Shou hal ayyam [Ziad Rahbani – Lebanon]
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3-RoQR3jjI
 
Wayn ar-ramallah [Palestine]
 https://youtu.be/cJidANg90QA
 

Ya-rayah wayn msaafir [Dahmane El-Harrachi – Algeria] [Lyrics]

 https://youtu.be/mCChxHZXacA
 
Yemma, mweyl al-hawa [May Nasr – Palestine] [Lyrics]
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwvnb1o7bU 
 
KURDISH
 
Were qurban [Hassan Zirak - Kurdistan]
 https://youtu.be/MdOrLWp8kUE
 
 
 
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"When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them." [Plato, The Republic, Book IV]

"When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake." [Tuli Kupferberg]

Please note: This is an ethnomusicological work in progress.

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Updated: 20.i.2019