Arabic-L:LIT:New Online Resource for Sirat Bani Hilal

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject: New Online Resource for Sirat Bani Hilal

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Date: 07 Jul 2010
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold at religion.ucsb.edu>
Subject: New Online Resource for Sirat Bani Hilal

I am very pleased to announce that the first stage of the <Sirat Bani  
Hilal Digital Archive> is now online at:

                 www.siratbanihilal.ucsb.edu

The <Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive> is an open access resource for  
the preservation and dissemination of audio recordings, written texts,  
photographic images, and other materials related to the ?Epic of the  
Bani Hilal tribe? (Arabic: S?rat Ban? Hil?l).

All of these materials are available for use by researchers and  
teachers without charge (see section on ?Copyrights & Permissions?).   
We ask only that any use of these texts include an attribution to the  
Archive (and, in the case of the English translations and photographs,  
that Dwight F. Reynolds be cited as translator/photographer).

The Archive will eventually house 50 hours of English translations,  
over 150 hours of Arabic transcriptions, and over 250 hours of audio  
recordings from performances of the Sirat Bani Hilal oral epic poem  
recorded in Egypt in 1986-87.  Of particular note should be the  
?Virtual Performance? section of the Archive where viewers can listen  
to an audio-recording while reading a synchronized line-by-line  
translation of the performance in both Arabic and English.  This is  
meant to be used as both a teaching and research tool.

The site also includes a brief historical introduction, photo  
galleries, an extensive bibliography on SBH, a listing of online  
resources, and passages from my original fieldnotes.

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