Asmahan''s Secrets : Woman, War and Song

Name: Asmahan''s Secrets
Brand: Saqi Books
SKU: 9780863563270
Price: 2700 KES
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780863563270

by Sherifa Zuhur

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0863563279

ISBN-13 9780863563270

Publisher Saqi Books

Imprint Saqi Books

Country of Manufacture LB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 2001

Print length 247 Pages

Weight 380 grams

Dimensions 13.90 x 21.50 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Music: styles & genres Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups Music: styles and genres Composers and songwriters Biography: arts & entertainment Biography: arts and entertainment Gender studies: women and girls Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Gender studies: women Ethnic studies

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The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the 1930s, as World War II approached. She was also rumored to be an agent for the allied forces during WWII. This work presents the story of Asmahan and her musical career, and the aspects of the cultural and political history of Egypt and Syria between the two world wars.

The great Arab singer, Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the 1930s, as World War II approached. A Druze princess actually named Amal al-Atrash, she came from an important clan in the mountains of Syria, but broke free from her traditional family background, left her husband, and became a public performer, a role frowned upon for women of the time. She was also rumored to be an agent for the allied forces during WWII. Through the story of Asmahan and her musical career, the reader glimpses not only aspects of the cultural and political history of Egypt and Syria between the two world wars, but also the change in attitude in the Arab world toward women as public performers on stage.

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