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Mohamed El-Fers
Mohamed el-Fers (born 1950 in Haarlem) is a Dutch writer, musician and filmmaker. Life El-Fers was musician in Los Compañeros (Latin American), Nass el-Ghorba (Moroccan), Tiq Maya (Moroccan), Medina (pop) and Atlal (folkrock). With this last group he had in 1982 a number 1 hit in Egypt and Sudan and appeared in ''El Alem Ghani'' the Egyptian television show by Hamdia Hamdi. He published in ''Hitweek'' / ''Aloha'', ''De Groene Amsterdammer'', ''Nieuwe Revu'', ''Algemeen Dagblad'', the Turkish newspaper ''Dünya (newspaper), Dünya'' and ''De Staatskrant''. Together with René Zwaap, he founded MokumTV, one of the best viewed programmes of SALTO Omroep Amsterdam, Salto TV, a local television station in Amsterdam. For MokumTV he made several documentaries, later released on Dvd, DVD. El-Fers produced in 1996 for Hippo Records two CDs with Leo Fuld, the 'king of Yiddish music'. He wrote biographies on e.g. Jacques Brel, Rumi, Mevlana Rumi, Umm Kulthum, Oum Kalsoum and Bob Marley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe; it is also part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area, being located about 15 km to the west of the core city of Amsterdam. Haarlem had a population of in . Haarlem was granted city status or '' stadsrechten'' in 1245, although the first city walls were not built until 1270. The modern city encompasses the former municipality of Schoten as well as parts that previously belonged to Bloemendaal and Heemstede. Apart from the city, the municipality of Haarlem also includes the western part of the village of Spaarndam. Newer sections of Spaarndam lie within the neighbouring municipality of Haarlemmermeer. Geography Haarlem is located on the river Spaarne, giving it its nickname 'Spaarnestad' (Spaarne city). It is situated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
