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11 Jun 2013
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Artistic journey between Lebanon and Mauritania
- The discovery of world music continues as part of the first edition of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
- Whether with the Lebanese Abir Nehme and her Aramaic and Syriac chants or the Mauritanian Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane and her art of the griots, it is a journey into distant universes that the public had the opportunity to experience.
- Whether with the Lebanese Abir Nehme and her Aramaic and Syriac chants or the Mauritanian Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane and her art of the griots, it is a journey into distant universes that the public had the opportunity to experience.
In its spirit of openness to the different cultures and languages of the world, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music invited the large public present on 10 June at the Batha Museum to discover Aramaic, Syriac and Byzantine chants with the Lebanese singer Abir Nehme. An expert musicologist who knows the subtleties of sacred music and Lebanese tarab well, Abir Nehme embodies the ancient emotion of Syriac chants and the Aramaic language, which is considered an endangered language. Driven by personal faith and a passion for spirituality, Abir Nehme attempts to revive, through song, this language that has its origins in Antiquity. Indeed, Aramaic, which was the language spoken by Jesus Christ, eventually became the majority language among Jews in Palestine and elsewhere in the Middle East around 200 AD and until the Arab conquest in the 7th century. With her angelic voice that pushes spiri…
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