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Al-Balad Music Festival
The Al-Balad Music Festival (also known simply as the Al-Balad Festival) is a biannual multi-day concert series in Jordan which takes place in downtown Amman, in the historic Roman amphitheater and Odeon amphitheater. It was launched in 2009 by Al Balad Theater and receives support from the Greater Amman Municipality, the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and the European Union in Jordan, as well as other sponsoring partners in media, tourism, culture, and the arts. The Al-Balad festival hosts different bands each time from Jordan and abroad, but with special emphasis on artists from the Arab region. Among the more prominent artists who have spotlighted in previous line-ups are: * Jordanian alt-rock band El Morabba3 (2015, 2019) * Algerian singer-songwriter Souad Massi (2011, 2015) * Lebanese vocalist Tania Saleh (2013, 2019) * Artist and composer Tamer Abu Ghazaleh of Egypt (2013) * Egyptian performer/artist Dina El Wadidi * Tunisian singer Mounir Troudy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amman
Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city in the Levant region, the list of largest cities in the Arab world, fifth-largest city in the Arab world, and the list of largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, ninth largest metropolitan area in the Middle East. The earliest evidence of settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC, in a Neolithic site known as ʿAin Ghazal, 'Ain Ghazal, where the world's ʿAin Ghazal statues, oldest statues of the human form have been unearthed. During the Iron Age, the city was known as Rabat Aman and served as the capital of the Ammon, Ammonite Kingdom. In the 3rd century BC, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Pharaoh of Ptole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
Tamer is a Turkish given name and surname. It means ''Competent soldier'' in Turkish. In Arabic (written as تامر), the name is more closely related to Tamr (as in dates). Persons Given name * Tamer Abdel Hamid, Egyptian football player * Tamer Ashor (born 1984), Egyptian singer and composer * Tamer Balci (1917–1993), Turkish actor * Tamer Basar, Turkish control theorist * Tamer Başoğlu, (born 1938) Turkish sculptor * Tamer Bayoumi, Egyptian taekwondo player and Olympian * Tamer El Said, Egyptian film director, producer, and writer * Tamer El-Sawy, Egyptian tennis player * Tamer Fernandes (born 1974), English football player * Tamer Hamed (born 1974), Egyptian swimmer and Olympian * Tamer Hassan, English actor of Turkish Cypriot descent * Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter * Tamer Karadağlı, Turkish actor * Tamer Moustafa (born 1982), Egyptian basketball player * Tamer Nafar, Arab Israeli rap artist * Tamer Oyguç, Turkish professional basketball player * Tame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals In Jordan
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amman Design Week
Amman Design Week is a design biennial that takes place in Amman, Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive .... It was founded with the support of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah. Background Amman Design Week ran for three consecutive editions; 2016, 2017, and 2019. The event's program includes its headline exhibition, called the Hangar Exhibition, which takes place at the Hangar in Ras Al Ain in downtown Amman, and features works by local and regional designers in various disciplines including architectural installations, furniture, fashion, product, and graphic design. A second showcase, called the Crafts District, is a pop up exhibition that takes place in different parts of the city and engages in urban interventions. In 2016, the Crafts District pop up ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerash Festival
The Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts is an annually-held event held in Jerash, Jordan. It is part of the Jordan Festival, that aims to enrich cultural activities in Jordan. Founded in 1981 by Queen Noor, it features several shows performed by Jordanian, Arab and foreign artists. Festival In 2015, the festival hosted 40 different Jordanian artists in Jerash, along with popular Arab singers such as: Najwa Karam, Maya Diab Maya Henri Diab ( ar, مايا هنري دياب ; born 10 November 1980) is a Lebanese pop singer, entertainer, actress and television personality. She is a former member of the Lebanese girl group The 4 Cats. Early life Maya Diab, was born i ... and Wael Kfouri. The festival is hailed as one of the largest cultural activities in the region with millions of people going to see it. The 31st Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts in 2016 attracted over 100,000 visitors and the attendance rates were greater than that of the year prior. References Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hany Adel
Hany Adel ( ar, هاني عادل; born September 8, 1976) is an Egyptian guitarist, vocalist, and screen actor. He was born September 8, 1976, and is the founding member of the Arabic language band Wust El-Balad. He has also played significant supporting roles in a number of contemporary Egyptian films dealing with controversial social and political issues facing Arab society. These films include Microphone (2010), a film about Egypt's culture wars, Asmaa (2011) about a woman living in Cairo with HIV/AIDS, the 2013 film Fatat El Masnaa ("Factory Girl") about gender and class discrimination in modern Egyptian society and the movie Ishtibak ("Clash") set after the political events of June 2013. Adel is married to Lebanese actress Diamand Bou Abboud Diamand Abou Abooud is a Lebanese actress, working in Europe and the Arab world, specifically Lebanon and Egypt. Early life and education Diamand Abou Abboud studied drama at the Lebanese University's Institute of Fine Arts, Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounir Troudi
Mounir Troudi () (b. 1968) is a jazz and Sufi music singer from Tunisia. Mounir grew up in Tunis, and he received his diploma Arabic music in 1998. He made his debut with Fadhel Jaziri and his show ''Hadhra'' in 1994, and in the early 2000s he formed Nagouz. He has also appeared in several albums with jazz trumpet player Erik Truffaz. In 2010 he released his album ''Tawassol''. Mounir announced ''Bach on the bac' as his next project in June 2018. Notable Performances * 1994 : ''Hadhra'' * 2000 : Tabarka Jazz Festival Albums * 2002 : ''Mantis'' (with Erik Truffaz) * 2005 : '' Saloua'' (with Erik Truffaz) * 2010 : '' Tawassol'' * 2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ... : '' Songs from a Stolen Spring'' (compilation) * Bach on the bac References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina El Wedidi
Dina El Wedidi ( ar, دينا الوديدي), is an Egyptian singer, composer, guitarist, music producer, and storyteller. Dina has been known as the lead performer of an ensemble of musicians who have performed extensively in the past 2 years, fusing local and global styles of music. Early life Wedidi was born and raised in Giza, Egypt. She studied Oriental Literature at Cairo University, where she graduated in 2008, then spent some time working as a translator and sometimes a tour guide in Egypt. Wedidi discovered her passion for music after joining El Warsha Theater Troupe in 2008, where she learned to sing a wide variety of traditional genres with the help of her tutor Maged Soliman. She then decided to leave El Warsha and began to explore the full potential of her voice. She also participated in many workshops with independent musicians both in Egypt and beyond, including Grammy award-winning Egyptian musician Fathy Salama and singer-songwriter Kamilya Jubran. Musical ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Saleh
Tania Saleh ( ar, تانيا صالح; born March 11, 1969) is a Lebanese singer-songwriter, present in the Arabic independent musical scene since 1990. Early life Tania Saleh is a Lebanese singer, songwriter and visual artist. She is considered one of the founders of the Arabic independent alternative musical scene in Lebanon in the Arab world. Her voice is viewed as a mixture of traditional Arabic music with Western sounds. The themes of interest in her music include social and political turmoil in Lebanon (Saleh was six years old when the Lebanese civil war began). Since her debut in 1990, she has experimented with various musical genres, which has resulted in a mix of Lebanese music flavored with folk, alternative rock, bossa nova, jazz, and most recently electronic music. Alex Bessos encountered Saleh while searching for a lead vocalist for his band Minus Infinitee. Bessos expressed his interest in Saleh's voice and invited her to audition. Her first live performan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Jordan is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and east, Iraq to the northeast, Syria to the north, and the Palestinian West Bank, Israel, and the Dead Sea to the west. It has a coastline in its southwest on the Gulf of Aqaba's Red Sea, which separates Jordan from Egypt. Amman is Jordan's capital and largest city, as well as its economic, political, and cultural centre. Modern-day Jordan has been inhabited by humans since the Paleolithic period. Three stable kingdoms emerged there at the end of the Bronze Age: Ammon, Moab and Edom. In the third century BC, the Arab Nabataeans established their Kingdom with Petra as the capital. Later rulers of the Transjordan region include the Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, Byzantine, Rashidun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Souad Massi
Souad Massi (سعاد ماسي; born August 23, 1972), is an Algerian Berber singer, songwriter and guitarist. She began her career performing in the Kabyle political rock band Atakor, before leaving the country following a series of death threats. In 1999, Massi performed at the ''Femmes d'Algérie'' concert in Paris, which led to a recording contract with Island Records. Massi's music, which prominently features the acoustic guitar, displays Western musical style influences such as rock, country or the Portuguese fado but sometimes incorporates oriental musical influences and oriental instruments like the oud as well as African musical stylings. Massi sings in Classical Arabic, Algerian Arabic, French, occasionally in English, and in the Kabyle Berber language, often employing more than one language in the same song. Childhood and early bands Massi was born in Algiers, Algeria to a poor family of six children. She grew up in the working-class Bab El Oued neighborhood of Algi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Morabba3
El Morabba3 ( ar, المربّع meaning "The Square") is an Arabic rock band from Amman, Jordan, formed in 2009. Biography The Jordan-based group was formed in 2009 as an Arab rock band. In July 2012 they released their debut album, titled ''El Morabba3'' (The Square), afterwards they gained huge popularity across the region. In 2015 they launched a crowdfunding campaign for their newest album, ''Taraf Al Khait''. The band's fan base throughout the Arab world and internationally has been steadily growing. In 2014, they appeared in front of thousands of fans as part of a major musical competition called ''SoundClash'' in Amman against another Jordanian band called Autostrad. Current members *Muhammad Abdullah - Co-founder, singer songwriter and bassist *Basel Naouri - Producer, synth & trumpet player Former members *El Far3i - acoustic guitar and vocals *Odai Shawagfeh - Co-founder, production, electric guitar, keyboards & synth *Dirar Shawagfeh - Co-founder, drums, percussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
