Arabic Music Respite
If you are fed up and want to have a relief from both mundane stress and what you watch/hear/read everywhere, you are welcome to join me. I do not know about you, but I like listening to classical music in general and Arabic Music in particular. Hence, in this post, I am going to place two melodies by the Egyptian musician “Omar Khairat (Arabic: عمر خيرت)” who was born in 1949.
For those who know nothing about him, Omar Khairat earned his degree from ‘Cairo Conservatoire’ and continued his studies in ‘Trinity College of Music’. He is well known for Egyptians and Arabs -both inside and outside the Middle East- with his compositions; either his own melodies or the ones that were written for famous Egyptians films, drama and plays in the last quarter of the 20th century. Furthermore, his uncle was the Egyptian architect “Abu Bakr Khairat (Arabic: أبو بكر خيرت)” who was among the first generation of classical music in Egypt and who became the first dean for Cairo Conservatoire from 1959 to 1963.
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music.” ~ [Gustav Mahler]
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Although it is hard to pick among his various melodies, I am sharing these two and hope you will enjoy them. This First piece entitled ‘A Storm In Spring (Arabic: ربيع في العاصفة)’. The second one entitled ‘Emta El-Zaman (Arabic: امتى الزمان)’ which is a contemporary remix for an old Arabic song by Mohammed Abdel Wahab (Arabic: محمد عبد الوهاب) with the same name.
[Can not see the video? Check it over YouTube]
[Can not see the video? Check it over YouTube]
Egypt under Cambyses II
I will take you in a short visit to our past. When I was studying our history in school, I knew about the story of the Persian emperor Cambyses II who invaded Egypt after defeating Pharao Psamtik III, the last Egyptian ruler of the ‘26th Dynasty (664-525 BC)’ and thus he became the first ruler of the ‘27th Persian Dynasty’ in our history and Egypt became part of the ‘Achaemenid (Persian) Empire.’
This story has a mysterious part; Cambyses II wanted to legitimize his claims for ruling Egypt by sending an army of 50,000 soldiers to take-over “The Temple of the Oracle [a.k.a. Temple of Amun (Arabic: معبد آمون)]” located at “Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة)”, but they were overtaken by a sandstorm and buried in Egypt's Western Desert with their weapons and equipments. Since then, this story has been labelled as The Lost Army of Cambyses II and became one of the myths in the field of Archaeology.
Back to the future during the past 20th century, many archaeological trials were set to find evidences for this story which was narrated by the Greek Historian Herodotus (484-425 BC), however either they found nothing or were just hoax. In the current 21st century, trials also were set by geologists from Helwan University in Egypt but nothing was announced as founding this lost army.
Last but not least, who knows, an Italian archeologists team announced this month that they found evidences of this lost army according to an article from Discovery News. I am neither historian nor archeologist however I am wondering why this was announced by a presentation during ‘Archaeological Film Festival of Rovereto’ in Italy?!
In other words, my question is simply: why did not we hear about this in Egypt from corresponding officials? I am looking forward to hearing such announcement either to confirm or deny. Hence, only time shall reveal the truth about this discovery, however in case it is true, I think this shall be a great for seeking more information about this far period of Egyptian history.
Note: The mentioned article contains also video and images of these claims.
“To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.” ~ Spyridon Marinatos
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- Cambyses II [Tour Egypt]
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