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DescriptionVoices of Resistance Through Time: In conversation with Bahiyya Monday 19th May, Doors and bar open 7pm, for 7.30pm start Tickets £5 for students and low-waged, £10 for everyone else! Location: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS Gallery, SOAS University of London Join us for an intimate evening with Bahiyya, showcasing the rich heritage of Arabic songs of resistance and tracing their immortal spirit across generations. The night will feature a special acoustic performance and a conversation exploring the band’s journey, influences, and vision. Audiences are invited to engage, ask questions, and reflect on the enduring role of music in activism. Click on the 'more info' tab above for more details on the songs that will be discussed.
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ContactFor questions or further details, please email SOAS Concert Series coordinator Georgie Pope on musicevents@soas.ac.uk More InformationThe programme consists of the following songs, but is not limited them as the conversation with Bahiyya might bring up others. The following are brief descriptions of the songs with excerpts form lyrics. 1- Ya Habayebna (O Our Loved Ones يا حبايبنا) Sheikh Imam's and Ahmad Fouad Negm's Mawwal (a form of Arabic singing where the singer laments and longs for something) for a lost camaraderie, dispersed across the world. With a greeting, the song starts: O our loved ones! Where have you been? (...) Don't you ever think; that we've given up'.
2- Qoum ya Masri (Rise, Egyptian قوم يا مصري) A song by Sayyed Darwish & Badi' Khairi celebrating Egypt's 1919 Revolution against the British occupation. O Egyptian, rise! Egypt always longs for you, (...) Christians, Muslims, and Jews, All of us belong to one ancestry.
3- Ya Masr Qoumi (Rise, Egypt يا مصر قومي) A song by Sheikh Imam & Nagib Shehab el-Din celebrating Egypt's revolutionary student and workers’ movement in the 1970s. The song calls for a return to the struggle for freedom: O Egypt, come back to the old times calling from the university to (the factories of) Helwan.
4- Ya Falastiniyya (O Palestinian يا فلسطينية) By Sheik Imam & Ahmad Fouad Negm, this is a song on the attempts of dominating Palestine and its continuing struggle for freedom. One verse reads:
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