Arabic-L:Egyptian Art/Lyrics Responses

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Date: 29 Jan 2001
From: William J Kopycki Jr <kopycki at csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Egyptian Art/Lyrics Response

Dr. Gran,

http://www.egyptart.org.eg contains pictures of paintings both old and
new. Sponsored by Shell Egypt, the purpose of this site seems slightly
.com-oriented.

http://touregypt.net/art contains representative works of a variety of
Egyptian artists spanning various times and movements.

Perhaps others are aware of better sites....

Sincerely,

William Kopycki.

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Date: 29 Jan 2001
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Egyptian Art/Lyrics Response

Greetings,

For Arabic songs,  mazika  site (http://www.mazika.com )  have tons of Arabic
songs (not just from Egypt but from other regions too) in MP3 and other audio
formats. Some with lyrics too.  I don't think they have anything for Sayyid
Darwish, but  you'll find lots of songs by AbdelHalim Hafez and Umm
Kulthum (the
lyrics though are in GIF format - not text).

For cinema, you could check Sakhr's cinema
(http://cinema.ajeep.com/arabcinema).
Not sure what they have there but it looks impressive.

Hope that helps,
Yaser Al-Onaizan
University of Southern California

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Date: 29 Jan 2001
From: "Chouairi, R. MR           DFL" <GR6548 at exmail.usma.army.mil>
Subject: Egyptian Art/Lyrics Response

Friends
The songs of Sayyed Darwish in his voice are available in good Arabic music
stores.  The quality is not always great.  The songs you may find are well
known ('anA hawait etc..).  And since you are interested in modern art,
there is also some very rare recordings in the possession of Mr. Ziad
Rahbani of Sayyed Darwish playing the piano and singing (you may want to get
in touch with Mozart Chahine stores in Beirut, they may have these
recordings available).  Ziad mentioned it in an interview in retaliation of
those who accused him and his parents of being modernists and not in the
tradition of eastern music.  Indeed songs such as Zourouni and Ttil`it ya
ma.hlA nourhA were forgotten in the Arab world and rediscovered by the
Rahbani brothers in the 50's.  When they went to Egypt, invited by 'ith`Ait
al ^sarq al-`adnA, to record songs for the Palestinians in the mid-50's,
they met with the son of Sayyed Darwish who did not know of the existence of
these 2 songs.  I am so happy that in this age of cacophony someone is
asking for the songs of a great mind: Sayyed Darwish.

Rajaa Chouairi
West Point

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