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Asmahan's Secrets : Woman, War, and Song (Middle East Monograph Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
Sherifa Zuhur
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| #974209 in Books | 2001-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.56 x6.00l,.85 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| No other comparable work in English|By Orin K. Hargraves|The bad news: criticisms expressed in other reviews are quite valid. The good news: this is a fascinating account of an extraordinary 20th-century life, and you won't find anything like it anywhere else in English, or possibly even in Arabic. The author brings to it her sensitivity as a scholar, a woman, and a musician an|About the Author|Sherifa Zuhur is Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song and cinema in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as World War II approached. She remained a figure of glamour and intrigue throughout her life and lives on today in legend as one of the shaping forces in the development of Egyptian popular culture. In this biography, author Sherifa Zuhur does a thorough study of the music and film of Asmahan and her historical setting.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Asmahan's Secrets : Woman, War, and Song (Middle East Monograph Series, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin) | Sherifa Zuhur. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.