Jalaluddin sauti biography for kids

A.J. Racy is a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA, and a distinguished performer and composer. He is the author of “Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab” (Cambridge University Press, 2003).  He is also, in many ways, the spiritual and intellectual father of Afropop Worldwide’s Hip Deep series. The pilot for the series was the program he helped us make: “Tarab: The Art of Ecstasy in Arab Music.”  He has advised us on our Al-Andalus program series, and more recently, our 2011 series on Egypt, and our 2013 series on Lebanon. This is the second part of Banning Eyre’s 2013 interview with Professor Racy. It concerns the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and, especially, Brazil.

B.E.: You talked about the fact that there is this incredible history of diasporic movement out of Lebanon and Syria in the decades before World War I. Let’s talk about the historic reasons for that.

A.J.R.: There are many reasons why so many people moved from Lebanon and Syria to places like Brazil during the late 19th century and, especially, World War I. People cite the economic need, the collapse of the silk industry—a local, homegrown industry—and also the famines that took place, the Ottoman oppression at the time. Also Brazil opened its arms to immigrants from that part of the world, officially and informally. Brazil was a suitable place to go and establish yourself. There might be other reasons as well. But what’s important is that people who did go to Brazil from these areas, many of whom were from rural areas—villages and larger towns in Lebanon—established a renaissance, a cultural revival that was really almost unrivaled in the history of Arab literature.

They established journals in Arabic. In the 1920s, one of my uncles, Sami Racy, in São Paulo, established a journal and I saw about twenty volumes, very thick volumes, all in Arabic. There was poetry by famous Lebanese poets in

Marie Daulne and the latest version of her genre-busting ensemble Zap Mama were a standout at New York’s recent globalFEST concert extravaganza. Marie is a traveler and an adventurer, and she’ll soon be back in the U.S. touring in a collaboration with Brooklyn-based Afrobeat band Antibalas. Afropop’s Banning Eyre met up with Marie after the globalFEST show to talk about her ongoing globe-trotting, new music from Zap Mama, and the collaboration with Antibalas. Here’s their conversation.

Banning Eyre: Marie, great to see you again. Bring us up to date on Zap Mama. It's been a few years since we spoke about the group.

Marie Daulne: The last release was in 2008, I think. That means six years ago. Wow! What happened was that I moved back to Belgium. I left the apartment in New York. Because for a few years, I was here, in Harlem, composing. I chose Harlem because there are a lot of Africans, a lot of West Africans there. And at the same time, all the funky hip-hop music. There is all this fusing—eating fish from the African restaurants, and afterwards going to the studio to record, or a movie. All this culture merging together. Harlem was the perfect place for me. And I composed a lot there.

I composed to the songs I have here. I had the chance to meet the guy from the Last Poets, Jalaluddin Masur Nuriddin. I sent him my lyrics, and he transformed them into poetry.

Marie Daulne and Zap Mama (Eyre 2015)

So is this material for a new album?

O.K., so it's all finished now. I have a double album. I want to say it's a double album, but maybe I will release the two one after another. I call the first one Eclectic, and the second one Flashback to Present. You had the story of Afropea, my beginning, afterwards we had Ancestry in Progress. And now I say Flashback to Present. There are some albums in between, but I make a connection between those three, because there is a relationship with African-American history. An

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1445–1505)

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (Arabic: جلال الدين السيوطي, romanized: Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; c. 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an EgyptianSunniMuslimpolymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu'ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic scienc