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الحلقة عن ظاهرة التيت فى الشارع =D

ما علينا - دكتور باسم يوسف حلقه 10

قصائد الأبنودي - بعد التحيه والسلام 4

Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love.

The novel is about finding love and is written in two strands. One is the friendship between a whirling dervish and the Sufi poet Rumi in 13th century Anatolia; the other is about a mother in contemporary America who finds inspiration in the historical story to break away from an unhappy life.

Amazingly, Elif wrote the book in English, which she first learnt at the age of ten. She then worked with professional translators to write it again in Turkish.

Elif Shafak explains the importance of Sufi mysticism in the novel and in her life. She talks about the influence of her grandmother's superstitions, about the transformation of modern Turkey and how she was prosecuted - and acquitted - in 2006 for 'denigrating Turkish national identity' because of her writing.

First published in 2010, The Forty Rules of Love has now been translated into over 30 languages.

James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the questions.


May's Bookclub choice : Ice by Gillian Clarke

Producer : Dymphna Flynn. Published on April 7, 2013.

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

Alec Guinness - The Waste Land: The Burial of the Dead

Alec Guinness - The Waste Land: A Game of Chess

Alec Guinness - The Waste Land: The Fire Sermon

Alec Guinness - The Waste Land: Death By Water

Alec Guinness - The Waste Land: What the Thunder Said

"Oummi" -  Bendhiba Chabane (1980)

gharamophone.com/2020/07/21/isaac-loeb-and-slomo-souiri-belouajeb-nefrah-olympia-c-1950s/

Isaac Loeb & Slomo Souiri - Belouajeb Nefrah [Sides 1-2] (Olympia, c. 1950s)

مقتطف من ديوان(ما من يد) لسوزان عليوان
فزَّاع الطيور

كثيرةٌ هي أمنياتُهُ
أكثرَ من السنواتِ التي أمضاها واقفًا في هذا الخلاءِ
أكثرَ من البذورِ التي يحرسُها الهواءُ
.عبرَ جسدِهِ القليل

يحلمُ بمقعدٍ يريحُ ساقَهُ النحيلةَ
بوضعِ يدِهِ في جيبٍ
في كفِّ امرأةٍ
بغيمةٍ تستقرُّ فوقَ رأسِهِ تمامًا
بأطفالٍ طيِّبينَ يقذفونَ نحوَهُ كُرَةَ القدمِ
بينَ حينٍ وآخر
بدلاً عن الأحجارِ
بأزهارٍ قليلةٍ تنبتُ حولَهُ
ليطمئنَّ أنَّ أحدًا في العالم سيفتقدُهُ
إن سقَطَ
.بضربةِ مِنْجَل

يحلمُ بالعصافير
تلامسُهُ
دونَ خوفٍ
حتَّى إن أخذَتْ مقابلَ حنانِها العابرِ
قشَّ القبَّعةِ التي تحميهِ
في هذا الخلاءِ
.من قسوةِ الشمسِ والمطر

بصوتي قصيدة (فزاع الطيور)للشاعرة سوزان عليوان

#بصوتي مقطع من قصيدة أمل دنقل ( سفر التكوين) الإصحاح الأول والثاني

#بصوتي، سفرالتكوين-أمل دنقل

https://gharamophone.com/2020/09/16/orchestre-arabe-direction-mimoun-danses-arabes-parlophone-c-1930/

Orchestre Arabe, Direction Mimoun - Danses Arabes (Parlophone, c. 1930)

E478 | How do social categories like gender and race impact migrant trajectories as they move through different imperial, national, and liminal spaces? In this episode, we explore this question through the incredible journey of Zeinab Ameen, one of many Syrian migrants featured in the work of our guest Randa Tawil. Zeinab Ameen was born in late Ottoman Lebanon. Like hundreds of thousands of other people of her generation in the Ottoman Empire, she and her family decided to emigrate to America during the early 20th century. The result was a tale of tribulation that spans more than three decades. In telling Zeinab’s story, we’ll visit a number of other global ports, including Marseille, Liverpool, New York City, and Veracruz. We’ll also visit both land borders of the United States--the Canadian border and the Mexican border, as well as the Midwest, one of the great centers of the Syrian-American mahjar.

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/zeinab.html

Randa Tawil is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University, where she teaches courses on race, gender, and migration. Her research interests include history of migration, Middle Eastern diaspora, and film, and has written several articles on these issues for the Washington Post. Follow me @randa_tawil and visit randatawil.com

Chris Gratien is Assistant Professor of History at University of Virginia, where he teaches classes on global environmental history and the Middle East. He is currently preparing a monograph about the environmental history of the Cilicia region of the former Ottoman Empire from the 1850s until the 1950s.

CREDITS

Episode No. 478
Release Date: 28 September 2020
Recording Location: Seattle / Charlottesville, VA
Music and Audio Elements (by order of appearance): Chad Crouch - Pilgrims Progress; Zé Trigueiros - Big Road of Burravoe; Emile Vacher - En Veilleuse; Silicon Transmitter - Badlands; Komiku - Un desert; Zé Trigueiros - Sombra;  Soularflair - Slow Gentle Solo Piano; Soularflair - Dark-Schizo-Uneasy-Piano; Alvino Rey and His Orchestra - In the Hall of the Mountain King; TRG Banks - Across the mountainous region 
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Additional credits to Gedney Barclay, Dan Cairnes, Rawan Arar, and Sam Dolbee
Bibliography and images courtesy of Randa Tawil available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2020/09/zeinab.html

Zeinab's Odyssey: Gender, Mobility, and the Mahjar | Randa Tawil

For more information: https://gharamophone.com/2021/01/28/aroun-haouzi-el-baidi-koumtarra-barahim-sides-1-2-polyphon-1932/

Aroun Haouzi El Baidi - Koumtarra Barahim [Sides 1-2] (Polyphon, 1932)

E494 | Richard Breaux needed a hobby. He began collecting 78 rpm records as a break from his work as a professor of Ethnic and Racial Studies at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. But when he stumbled upon a trove of Arabic language records at an estate sale, his hobby became a scholarly project of its own to document and reconstruct the history of the Arab diaspora in La Crosse, Wisconsin and the Greater Midwestern United States. In this episode, we talk about the history of early 78 rpm Arabic records in the United States, the people who owned them, and the story of a forgotten center of the Midwest Mahjar. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/02/midwest-mahjar.html

Richard Breaux is an Associate Professor of Ethnic & Racial Studies. He has published in the Journal of African American History, Great Plains Quarterly, the Journal of Pan-African Studies, and the Journal of African American Studies. He is currently working on a book manuscript on La Crosse's Syrian and Lebanese Community and has a forthcoming chapter on music in Mahjari Arts & Letters Movement due to be out later this year.

CREDITS

Episode No. 494
Release Date: 22 February 2021
Recording Location: La Crosse, WI / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Sam Dolbee and Chris Gratien
Music: Zé Trigueiros
Digitized records (by order of first appearance): Wardatone - Koulta Ghanny; Jamili Matouk - Min Aouilha; Louis Wardini - Shams Il Shamousy; Assad Dakroub - Woudah El Habib; Fadwa Obeid - Shab Haelewa; Pauline Ferris Wedding
Images and bibliography at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/02/midwest-mahjar.html

Alec Guinness - The Waste Land: What the Thunder Said

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