From Andalusia to Damascus

Damascus-Sana

From the Sham Umayyads, the Arabic poems carried by the descendants of Saqr Quraish to Andalusia, inspired by the music of the West and the language of the desert to return to us in the same footsteps, but in a new look is the Almushah Andalusian.

Al-Muwashah, who attended the Al-Azem Palace Theater in “Al-Muwashah's Journey from Andalusia to Syria” through a singing evening held by the Ain El-Fonoun Association with the participation of singers from Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Spain. Syria and from it launched the word and melody, stressing that the preservation of our cultural heritage is the meaning of belonging to this land.

The evening started with the lute and a musical link entitled Sayed Darwish composed by Hussein Sabsbi and then singer Safwan Al-Abed from Syria sang a poem early ..

And from Lebanon, singer Dr. Ghada Shbeir, a poem "O waterer to you the complainant" introduction to Mwashah, "who contained the Riyadh Riyadh cheek."

Abbas Rigi from Algeria began with an improvised poem early on: “When you live, my eyes are accumulating .. I hear from those homes we call you” and an Algerian muchash “Billah ya Mansour” in addition to a song from the heritage of his country.

From Syria, Sarah Farah sang a poem for Hallaj composed by Tahir Mamalli early "God is not Talaat Shams and not only West and love your breath," while the Mehrizia long Tunisian poem sang classical introduction to Mwashah "Ya Gharib Aldar."

From Spain, singer Alicia Morales presented a flamingo song with guitarist Alvaro Alvarez, and Moroccan singer Samira El Kadri presented an Andalusian poem entitled "Nectar of Love."

The concert concluded with a singing of the poem “My heart has become” and variants of the poem “For what seemed to be folded” and the poem “I adore a Andalusian girl” from the Andalusian heritage, accompanied by a group of generations that performed a dance of grace.

Bilal Ahmad

Photography by Waseem Khairbek