Middle Eastern Influences playlist for 05/09/2014

Jawaz-Safaar
Omi
3asafer-El-Jalel
Nazeln men Na7late Ljor7 Lqadem
Lam Ta2te 2o3'neyate
Wa A3edo Adla3e
Ahmad Awaits
Resist
Sa2er Bayn Altfaseel
Wa 7ayfa Men Hona Bada2at
Samedoon
Kan Lmo7'ayam
Ana A7mad L3arabey

Exploring the relationship between the musician and Lebanese singer Marcel Khalifé and the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

  • Wouod El Asefa (Promises of the Storm) features Darwish's most famous poems including Ila Omi (to my mother) describing the exile from the mother, a metaphor for the homeland.
  • Ahmad Al Arabi (Ahmad the Arab) is a poetic opera written by Mahmoud Darwish and composed/directed by Marcel Khalife accompanied by Oumayma El-Khalil and the chorus of Al-Mayadine.
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