Arabic-L:PEDA:Ramadan Songs

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1) Subject: Ramadan Songs
2) Subject: Ramadan Songs

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Date:  16 Nov 2001
From: Michael Akard <michael_akard at hotmail.com>
Subject: Ramadan Songs

Kuwait and some of the other Arabian Gulf countries have a children's
holiday within Ramadan. In Kuwait, it is called "Girgiyaan," and
Kuwaitis compare it to Halloween because children dress in special
clothes and go door-to-door (mostly to relatives) collecting gifts of
money and candy. There are special songs associated with this holiday
as well. The one I have heard begins:

Girgiyaan o Girgiyaan, beit aqSayer wa-l-meidhaan

'adat 'aleykum Siyaam, kull sana wa kull 'aam

Michael Akard
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2)
Date:  16 Nov 2001
From: Haroon Shirwani <haroon.shirwani at st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Ramadan Songs

Hi,

The Canadian singer Dawud Wharnsby has recorded a very popular song
about Ramadan called "So we've scanned the sky...". Try
www.soundvision.com and click on 'Islamic Songs'. It's in the "Colors
of Islam" album.

Yours,
Haroon Shirwani

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