REviEws
of Palestine. salma Marjieh the longest night rejoices with
highlights the role women in dawn.
the Middle east have played The final section of the
in the independence move- festival presents May Nasr
ment by their emphasis on and Lourdes Pérez who are
national identity and regen- considered musical icons in
erating the traditional tunes. their respective lands: May,
Umm Kulthum played this from Lebanon, Lourdes, from
role earlier in the century Puerto Rico. The two sing-
as a national icon to whom ers had interactions and
the egyptians could relate to exchanged letters and ideas
and define their specific cul- but did not meet until a year
tural-musical character,and later. The israeli war with
distinguish themselves from Lebanon in 2006 was the
the coloniser. background of this union
iranain Oud player Negar when May was listening to
Booban gave a solo instru- a version of “Unadeekum” (i
mental oud performance in an Call To You All) by Ahmad
expressive conceptualization Kabour that Lourdes had
of “the birth of the sun”, based recorded. it was a song about
on the mythical images in resilience against war and
Persian beliefs about “Yalda” survival, translated and sung
night. “sheb-e Yalda” is the by Lourdes in spanish and
FEsTivAL
singer, slama Marjieh and longest night of the year in Arabic. Thus, the two sing-
ALwAN FEsTivAL NEw iranian Oud player, Negar winter in which according ers initiated a tradition which
YORK: wOMEN’s visiONs: Booban, Kamla Abu-Zekru’s to the ancient iranian myths calls for peace and freedom
A FEsTivAL AcROss AND One Zero. These were all the sun or “Mitra” was born. and the end of human rights
GENREs AND TRADiTiONs recorded and can be viewed The audience was passionate violations.
Review by online at
alwanforthearts.org. about her focus on traditional when they met in New
Tahereh hadian Palestinian artist and Persian music “Dastgah” York in 2007 they recorded
Alwan for the Arts is a New solo singer salma Marjieh and rhythms which contrib- Lourdes’ song “Caminaré,”
York based Arts and Cultural kicked off “women’s visions: uted to the preservation of which appeared in May’s CD,
Centre that promotes Middle A Festival Across Genres and national cultural heritage. Lil Ghaly. in songs about love
eastern, North African and Traditions” with the classics of “shab-e Yalda” is a mythi- and freedom.” Thus the two
south Asian Art. in December ismahan, Leila Mourad, Umm cal Persian heritage, which singers not only point to soli-
2009, it held a festival on Kulthoum, Fairouz, Farid al- has been celebrated among darity and unity among two
“Musical Performance: Atrache, among others, and iranians historically where people of different nations
women’s visions: A Festival paying a special tribute to her they read poems of Hafez, but also point to the contribu-
Across Genres and Traditions”, native country in perform- sa’di and Ferdowsi, tell stories, tions women specifically have
which featured Palestinian ance of the folkloric tunes and recite literary pieces until had in this path.
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