urgent re-evaluation needed
Back when I posted on Persepolis I already had been thinking if I should post on aryan description as the terminology for the Iranian people and point to the nowadays obsolete understanding of the usage of Aryan to mean “all Indo-Europeans” by most scholars. In central Europe and especially in Germany there is still a […] Read More
the precarious nature of actual documentary
as stated by Hito Steyerl in her contribution on Documentary Uncertainty for the current issue of the A Prior magazine, which thematically focuses – as far as one can say that by displaying blue fonts on blue background, or eventually the magazine already wants this way to point to the difficulties of current readabilities – […] Read Moreprolonged interlude for Umm Kulthum
The interview with Virginia Danileson, the author of “The Voice of : Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century†(University of Chicago Press. 1997), I have found just became to interesting to do it simply as an extended UPDATE on Umm Kulthum, so I thought to play it out as a […] Read More
interlude for ‘The Voice and Face of Egypt’
Another precious egyptian find which I brought with me from the recent travelling experience is the music of Oum Kalthoum (or Umm Kulthum) who has been described as to be more than a musician, she became ‘the voice and face of Egypt’. … one of the main goals of her performances was to bring her […] Read More