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PROGRAMME OF THE

2004 MUWASHSHAH CONFERENCE AT SOAS

FRIDAY MORNING

10.00am to 11.00am

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

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

11.00am to 11.30am: COFFEE BREAK

11.30am to 12.30pm

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

12.30pm to 2.00pm LUNCH BREAK

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

2.00pm to 3.30pm

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

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

3.30pm to 4.00pm TEA BREAK

4.00pm to 5.00pm

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

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

7.30pm Conference Supper at the Sofra Restaurant, Covent Garden. All welcome to attend. Address: 36 Tavistock Street, London WC2.

SATURDAY MORNING

10.00am to 11.00am

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

LOURDES ALVAREZ [US]: A paper on The muwashshah in Andalus.

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

11.00am to 11.30am: COFFEE BREAK

11.30am to 1.00pm

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

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

ULF HAXEN [Denmark]: “A hitherto unpublished Hebrew muwashshaha with an Arabic kharja.”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

1.00pm to 2.30pm: LUNCH

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

2.30pm to 3.30pm

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

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

3.30pm to 4.00pm: TEA BREAK

4.00pm to 5.30pm

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

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

MICHEL SLEIMAN [Brazil]: "The long panegyrical zajal of Ibn Quzman". [Summary]

7.30pm: !! MUWASHSHAHAAT Concert !! at the Brunei Gallery Theatre, opposite Main Building, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1. [Details]

SUNDAY MORNING

10.30am to 11.30am

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

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

11.30am to 12.00pm: COFFEE BREAK

12.00pm to 1.30pm

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

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

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

1.30pm to 2.30pm: LUNCH BREAK

2.30pm to 3.00pm

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

3.00pm to 3.30pm CLOSING SESSION: Goodbye till we meet again…