Hena Ashraf's film "Small Delights" Delights

Enjoy!

Small Delights from Hena Ashraf on Vimeo.

Toronto, Jul 25: Talent for Syria to Benefit Refugees

5 reasons to attend @TalentForSyria July 25 #Toronto to help save #Syria children @Offendum http://t.co/9hQaQ8dPYf pic.twitter.com/1VUBrZ1D8g

— Malek Jandali (@MalekJandali) July 12, 2015

Interview with Composer and Pianist Malek Jandali

I purchased the album "Emassa (Homs) by Malek Jandali, and I came across an interview he gave to the Chapel Hill, North Carolina public radio station. He's also on Twitter!

@NPR interview @DukeU @Ibishblog clarifying how Assad dictatorship is connected to corrupted NGOs in our U.S. Capital http://t.co/C6CALQndQB
— Malek Jandali ♫ ☮ ♥ (@MalekJandali) March 31, 2014

Support Hena Ashraf's New Film Small Delights

"Small Delights is a short fiction film about Aziza, who begins to understand that her love of music makes her quite different from those around her." Hena Ashraf, the director, is using Indiegogo to raise funds to support the project. Like the project on Facebook.



I've published several posts related to Hena Ashraf's work in the past.

"Deen Tight" - Documentary Film, Directed by Mustafa Davis

"DEEN TIGHT" is a documentary film :: directed by Mustafa Davis from Mustafa Davis on Vimeo.
Music, considered taboo practice by many traditional Muslims, has also become one of the most prominent methods for Muslims to share their faith internationally through Muslim Hip Hop. Read more ...

H/t  E-Baad-E News (Twitter)

Documentary Film Deen Tight: Trailer

Official web site

Labyrinths by Ayman Fanous and Tomas Ulrich

Dr. Ayman Fanous attended University of Virginia with me in the early 1990s. In addition to being a genuine human being, a gad'a, an ibn nas, he was an accomplished musician and played the `uud in various venues.

He has been able to continue making music, and I was fortunate enough to get his latest album. Lately, he has been combining his classical guitar with Tomas Ulrich's cello. The latest CD is entitled Labyrinths, and its out on konnex records, konnex-records.de. I purchased my copy from squidco.com.

Free the P

Free the P is a compilation of hip hop and spoken word performances to renew the spirit of resistance and self-evaluation for all activists for justice. There are two songs with a lot of Arabic lyrics, and the remainder use English. There are some "Eastern" musical features, but most of the artists' sounds are familiar to North American hip hop fans.

The bottom line for me is that the CD kept my interest, raised my pulse and kept the car moving.

A warning. There is some profanity and some use of the N-word. Immortal Technique's song "The 4th Branch" is an example of this.

It can be purchased from http://www.freethep.com.