Thornhaugh
Street, London WC 1H 0XG
List of
confirmed speakers [in alphabetical order]
The order of
speaking will be publicised nearer the time.
Website: www.geocities.com/muwashshah
MOHAMMAD
ANTAR [Cairo Group for Sufi Chanting and Zikr]: “The muwashshahaat of Ibn al-‘Arabi”
GEORGE BEECH:
“Muslim Zaragoza as a focal point for the transmission of Arabic, Jewish, and
Romance culture to Christian Europe later Middle Ages”
SAADANE
BENBAABALI [Sorbonne]: “The Heirs of Ziryab in Paris: the
artists and associations working for the transmission of the Arab-Andalusi
heritage in France”
FEDERICO
CORRIENTE [University of Zaragoza]: “A historical overview of
Muwashsah and Kharja theories”
NAJIB COUTYA
[London]: “The Poetry of Sheikh Imam of Cairo”
DINA DAHBANY-MIRAGLIA
[City University of New York]: “Horse, Heros and Broken Hearts”
CARL DAVILA [SUNY]: “The ‘Other Andalusian Music’: Andalusi Strophic
Poetry in the Moroccan Samâ’ wa-Madîh“
ED EMERY
[SOAS, London]: “The zajal in
Lebanon and Palestine”
SARA
MANASSEH [London]: “Poetry and Music in Shbahoth: the Muwashshah in
Babylonian Jewish Paraliturgical Song“
BENI MÜLLER [Switzerland]:
"Levant
- a Zajal in Orient" [Film]<
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”
YOSEF TOBI [University
of Haifa]: “Music and
Musical Instruments in Spanish Medieval Hebrew Poetry: The Praise Poem of Yosef
Ibn Saddīq (Justo)”
SUSANA
WEICH-SHAHAK [Hebrew University of Jerusalem]: “Zajal
structures in the repertoire of the Judeo-Spanish coplas oral tradition”
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THE SATURDAY
NIGHT CONCERT
[Brunei Gallery Theatre at
SOAS]
DATE: Saturday 6 October 2007
TIME:: 7.00pm to 9.00pm
Admission is free, but all
seats must be reserved in advance by sending an e-mail to
muwashshah [@]
soas.ac.uk
MOHAMMED
ANTAR [Cairo Group for Sufi Chanting and Zikr; vocals and ney]
KALIA BAKLITZANAKI [SOAS; vocals]
NAJIB COUTYA [Lebanon, vocals and ud]: Songs of
Sheikh Imam
SARA MANASSEH [Rivers of Babylon] Muwashshah in Babylonian
Jewish Song
THE THURSDAY EVENING SEMINAR
The Singing of Sheikh Imam of Cairo [Imam Isa].
On Thursday 4 October, prior to the conference, there
will be an evening seminar dedicated to 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: 6.00pm to 10.00pm
Admission is free, but it is
advisable to book your place in advance by sending an e-mail to muwashshah [@] soas.ac.uk