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Yacoub G. Al-Atrash
Yacoub G. Al-Atrash is a composer, music composer and maestro from State of Palestine, Palestine. Over the years, Yacoub has participated and performed in festivals such as International Festival of Carthage, Jerash Festival, and Mawazine. Yacoub has led orchestras with artists such as Mohammed Assaf, Assala, Omar Al-Abdallat, and Hany Shaker. Biography Yacoub was born in 1978 in the town of Beit Sahour in Palestine. His father is an olivewood artist known for making ouds from olivewood. From an early age, he was interested in musical instruments, especially the oud and learned the art from his father. Yacoub studied music at the Jordan Academy of Music. He then came back to Palestine to continue studying the Oud at Edward Said National Conservatory of Music. In 2007, he founded Awtar Studio. In the following year, he started the band Awtar which included 18 musicians. In 2012, he composed the music for ''Nimrod'' play. In 2014, his work, ''Palestine Light of Hope'', received t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beit Sahour
Beit Sahour or Beit Sahur ( ar, بيت ساحور pronounced ; Palestine grid 170/123) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian town east of Bethlehem, in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine. The city is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority. The population was of approximately 14,000 in 2017, In the Village Statistics, 1945, 1945 statistics the population of Beit Sahour was 2,770; 370 Muslims and 2,400 Christians,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945), p24/ref> who owned 6,946 (rural) and 138 (urban) dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 1,031 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,641 for cereals, while 100 dunams were built-up (urban) land. Jordanian occupation In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Beit Sahur came under Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population of Beit Sahur was 5,316. Israeli occupati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
