Ramzi Salti's Arabology

I am proud to share my radio interviews with (1) Lebanese Director Nadine Labaki and (2) Producer/Musical Composer Khaled Mouzanar who composed the Capernaum كفر ناحوم soundtrack as well as the score for Labaki's previous films Caramel and Where Do We Go Now? At the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, November 2018 This interview was recorded in San Francisco on November 18, 2018 while Labaki and Mouzanar--who are married in real life--were promoting the film for Sony Pictures Classics. The film is set for its U.S. theatrical release on on December 14, 2018. My interview with Nadine Labaki:  https://soundcloud.com/arabology/nadinelabaki My interview with Khaled Mouzanar at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/khaledmouzanar This film has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award and has been selected as a candidate for the 2019 Oscar race. It also won the Prix du Jury at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival as well as "Best Foreign Language Film&qu

Watch at this link The latest episode of the Emmy Award winning TV series The Migrant Kitchen (aired on December 5, 2018) highlighted the cuisines of two Palestinian women whose culinary skills have long received much critical acclaim in the San Francisco bay area. The episode was titled Man'ouche منقوشة  and showcased Chefs Reem Assil and Lamees Dahbour (aka Mama Lamees), both of whom have long attempted to use food to bring their homeland closer to Western tolerance and acceptance. You can watch the trailer below at this link or you can watch the whole show below or at  https://www.kcet.org/shows/the-migrant-kitchen/episodes/manoushe Watch complete episode at this link The show also included interviews with Stanford Lecturer/Radio Host Dr. Ramzi Salti + AROC Director Lara Kiswani. You can also read this article about the show (featuring quotes by Dahbour, Assil, and Salti) at THIS LINK Read full article at this link " The Migrant Kitc

Watch video at  https://youtu.be/d46Auymv26s Stanford Lecturer + Arabology radio host Dr. Ramzi Salti gave a talk about the music of the Arab Spring (and beyond) at Portland State University on November 18, 2018.  The talk was titled "Music of the Arab Spring and Beyond: From Revolution to Revelation" and was given by special invitation by the Arab American Cultural Center of Oregon - AACCO. You can watch video experts from the lecture below or at  https://youtu.be/d46Auymv26s The talk was meant to go along with this YouTube Playlist .

Watch the talk at  https://youtu.be/9HVkecq0KMo This discussion following the screening of the award winning documentary "From Baghdad to the Bay" at the Arab Film Festival 2018 was recorded on October 19, 2018 at the New Parkway in Oakland, California. It was moderated by Dr. Ramzi Salti and Co-presented by Human Rights Watch San Francisco and the International Rescue Committee in Northern California. Q&A session was moderated by Stanford Lecturer Dr. Ramzi Salti ft Director Erin Palmquist + star of the film Ghazwan Alsharif + Christine Lemonda, Deputy Director of Programs at the International Rescue Committee in Northern California. Special thanks to Serge Bakalian and The Arab Film and Media Institute for organizing the Arab Film Festival, the nation’s oldest and largest Festival of Arab films! Also many thanks to Alexander Farrow (AFF) and to Scott Schwerdtfeger for allowing me to use video highlights from his footage. "From Baghdad to The Bay" foll

Watch at https://youtu.be/zNaTLgmmJ4s On November 16, 2018, Stanford Lecturer + Arabology radio host Dr. Ramzi Salti discussed the music of the Arab Spring with a remote audience using Zoom Video Communications, a company operating from San Jose, California that provides remote conferencing services using cloud computing.  You can watch the lecture below or at this link:  https://youtu.be/zNaTLgmmJ4s This lecture  was meant to along with this YouTube Playlist (or scan below to get to Playlist):  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Scan code above to go to Playlist This lecture was presented to the fellows in the Stanford Global Studies Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) program. More info below.  Arab Spring Music: From Revolution to Revelation An Audio Visual Lecture by Dr. Ramzi Salti (author30@gmail.com)  Lecturer at Stanford University + Radio Host of ‘Arabology’ @KZSU 90.1 FM  Dr. Salti's Arab Spr

https://soundcloud.com/arabology/arabology121 The latest episode of my Arabology radio show (Oct 2018) highlights indie Arabic music from North Africa. You can listen below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/arabology121 Arabology is a radio show that airs on KZSU 90.1 Fm (Stanford) and is hosted by Stanford University Lecturer Dr. Ramzi Salti.  This episode featured music by Taha El Hmidi, Temenik Electric, Babylone, Jawhar, Fahmi Riahi, Sabry Mosbah, Yuma, Imed Alibi (featuring Mounir Troudi an Michel Marre), Youssra El Hawary, Cairokee, Mazeek, Nawawe, Mimi Amina + more. The show also featured interview with some of the Techwadi/Injaz Egypt winners who visited Stanford earlier this year to promote their amazing projects. Listen to the show at  https://soundcloud.com/arabology/arabology121

https://soundcloud.com/arabology/ranasunaij Recorded on August 13, 2018 in Amman, Jordan.  Listen to the interview below or at  https://soundcloud.com/arabology/ranasunaij Dr. Ramzi Salti interviews Jordan-based Syrian artist Rana Sunaij at her atelier in Amman, Jordan. Born In Damascus, Rana Sunaij entered the world wide-eyed and surrounded by a big loving family that were all creative. After studying Literature at the University of Damascus, she left to California to follow her dream of studying art. However, after getting married to an Austrian diplomat, her path changed and took her to Cairo, Egypt where her “nomadic lifestyle” began. The Austrian artistic heritage of Klimt, Kokoshka and the Wiener Werkstätten had lasting effects on her. During a short yet intensive stay in Sri Lanka her work was lastingly influenced by the brightly colored tropical flowers and the paradise like landscapes of the land. When, in 2006 she moved to Jordan, she instantly “fell i

Watch video at  https://youtu.be/AB0Yw12qwJk Stanford Lecturer + Radio Host Dr. Ramzi Salti moderated a lively film discussion at Stanford on June 13, 2018 following the screening of Maysaloun Hamoud's film "In Between بر بحر לא פה, לא שם" The film was part of Stanford Global Studies' annual film festival featuring movies from all around the world. This summer's theme was “Friends & Family: Tales From Near and Far.” This screening was sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. Below is a video of the film discussion, moderated by Dr. Ramzi Salti, in which members of the audience expressed various points of view that contributed towards a much needed discourse that centers on women, gender roles and marginalized sexualities in the Middle East. Watch the video below or at  https://youtu.be/AB0Yw12qwJk Musical Trailer for the film "In Between" (Created by William Sakhnini)

Dr. Ramzi Salti (left) introduces Tenor Mate Tasin  Turkish Opera singer Mete Tasin, whose repertoire has long included songs in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Persian, and Turkish, recently debuted an amazing rendition of the song "Lamma Bada Yatathanna" لما بدا يتثنى  in Arabic.  The song was introduced by Stanford Lecturer Dr. Ramzi Salti during Mete's concert at Angelica's in Redwood City on Saturday April 28, 2018 and left the audience cheering for more.  You can watch Mete's performance below or at  https://youtu.be/owP7nqpVMyM Lamma Bada Yatathanna is an ancient muwashshah, a genre of secular music from Al Andalus, Moorish Spain, which means it’s from some time before 1492. Here are the lyrics in Arabic and in English translation: لما بدا يتثـنى *** حبي جمـاله فتنــا أوما بلحظه أسرنا *** غصن سـنا حين مال وعدي ويا حيرتى *** من لي رحيم شكوتي في الحب من لوعتي ***إلا مليـك الجمــال When my beloved begins to sway, His/her beauty drives me t

Watch video at  https://youtu.be/3ZLrIHKsQ2w Stanford Lecturer Dr. Ramzi Salti's April 2018 interview with John Slattery, Director of the film "Casablanca Mon Amour' الدار البيضاء حبي, is now available online.  The film explores the entwined relationship between Hollywood and the Arab World by focusing on portrayals of Arabs and/or Muslims in American cinema.  You can watch the video below or at https://youtu.be/3ZLrIHKsQ2w This 50-minute talk includes a discussion of the film 'Beirut' (2:21), Jack Shaheen's 'Reel Bad Arabs' (7:39), Lebanese Director Nadine Labaki (10:45), the Oscar nominated Lebanese film 'The Insult' (11:38) and much more.

Dr. Ramzi Salti's Arabology radio show + podcast were among the works that were celebrated during the 25th Annual Publication Celebration which took place at The Stanford Humanities Center on March 6, 2018.   The event included kind remarks by Stanford Provost Persis Drell, seen below as she interacted with the Arabology audio-visual display. Photo by Steve Castillo The special Arabology episode that was honored for 2017-18 included an interview with Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan who graced the Stanford campus in November 2017.  That interview, available in full on YouTube, was chosen as Arabology's best interview for 2017-18. You can watch Dr. Ramzi Salti's interview with Yasmine Hamdan below or at this link: https://youtu.be/2U_UUQlFs3Q Arabology is a radio program that is hosted by Dr. Ramzi Salti, Lecturer at Stanford University, showcasing music and other cultural productions from the Arab world. 'Arabology' airs on KZSU 90.1 FM.

Listen at  https://soundcloud.com/arabology/taniasaleh2018 My 60-minute  Arabology interview  with Lebanese singer/songwriter/artist Tania Saleh was initially intended to discuss the music on her new "Intersection" CD yet quickly expanded into a lively discussion of the singer's latest project where music, poetry and street art intersect to give birth to a totally unprecedented audio-visual work--one that merits time and explanation in order to be fully savored and appreciated. This project, coupled with Tania's poignant commentary about each track on the album, made for a rich, informative interview that could have easily transfixed any audience worldwide (listen below or at this link ). First, there are Tania's angelic vocals which, when combined with Tunisian Music Producer Khalil Judran's contemporary electronic sounds, give new life to poems by such acclaimed poets as Mahmoud Darwish, Khalil Gibran,  Nizar Qabbani, Nazik Al-Malaika, Bayram Al-T

https://soundcloud.com/arabology/karimmiske I am delighted to share my radio interview with Mauritanian-French filmmaker and writer Karim Miské which was recorded on February 12, 2018 at KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM.  Listen/download the interview below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/karimmiske Karim Miské is a groundbreaking filmmaker and novelist who, over the past 20 years, has made a number of documentaries on a wide range of issues including colonial legacies, hip hop culture, informal economy, freedom of press, and bioethics. His widely-acclaimed debut novel Arab Jazz (2012) won the English PEN Award.  Karim Miské has also received much critical acclaim for his documentary "Musulmans de France" [Muslims of France] which tells the history of Muslims in France, starting with the 1904 arrival of poor North African immigrants to the 2007 election of Muslim candidates to government offices. It asks the questions: what does it mean to be a Muslim in F

https://soundcloud.com/ arabology/fadizaghmout I am proud to share this radio interview which I conducted on Feb 21, 2018 with Jordanian novelist فادي زغموت Fadi Zaghmout whose first two novels, both best sellers in the Middle East, managed to defy and subvert various notions of gender and sexuality in the Arab world. In this interview, Fadi talks about his 2 groundbreaking novels (both available in English translation) while giving us a preview of his third, forthcoming novel "Laila and the Lamb." Listen below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/fadizaghmout Listen/share/download the interview at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/fadizaghmout Fadi Zaghmout is a gender activist, blogger, and author. His first two novels were best-sellers in the Middle East, and his third novel "Laila and the Lamp" is forthcoming from Egyptian publisher Kotob Khan. Fadi holds an MA in Creative Writing and Critical Thinking from Sussex University in the UK. He blogs at t

https://soundcloud.com/arabology/amireid Stanford Lecturer Dr. Ramzi Salti interviews Amir Eid, lead vocalist/songwriter/guitarist for the Egyptian band Cairokee, which came to prominence during/following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and whose latest best-selling album "Noaata Beida نقطة بيضا 2017" featured the song "Kont Faker"--a track that topped Arabology's Top 20 Songs of 2017. Listen to the interview below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/amireid Recorded at KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford University) in February 2018, this interview features various Cairokee song segments as Amir Eid discusses his musical influences, his career, and the reception of Cairokee's latest album in the Middle East and the West. Cairokee's band members include Amir Eid (vocals & rhythm guitar), Tamer Hashem (drums), Sherif Hawary (Lead guitar), Adam El-Alfy (bass guitar) and Sherif Mostafa (Keyboard). More info at cairokee.com يمكنكم الآن الاستماع الى المقابلة

The latest episode of Arabology (aired February 2018) featured the Top 20 Alternative/Indie Arabic Songs of 2017--according to an unofficial poll of selected Stanford students and KZSU 90.1 FM listeners.  You can listen to the show below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/top2017 Now in its 7th year, Arabology is a radio program that is hosted by Dr. Ramzi Salti, Lecturer at Stanford University, showcasing music and other cultural productions from/about the Arab world.  The program airs on KZSU 90.1 FM (Stanford University) and previous podcasts can be found here . The massive amount of talented musicians from the Arab world who emerged and re-emerged in 2017 made for a particularly competitive chart this year and included fiercely independent musicians and singers from all over the globe, including Muzdawaj (Jordan), Amine Souikra + Khawla Kayour (Morocco), Alsarah & the Nubatones (Sudan), Ahmad Zoubi (Jordan), Mahmoud Badrawy (Egypt), Temenik Electric ft Mehdi Haddj