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ADWAN Moneim


Moneim Adwan was born in 1970 in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip of Palestine, near the Egyptian frontier. He began to sing Palestinian traditional songs and prayers of the Prophet Mohammed in his childhood. When he was 17 years old he started play- ing the lute and embarked on studies at the University of Tripoli (Libya), where he obtained a Masters Degree in Musicology with Professor Fateh El-Ramiz (song) and Abdallah Sabai (lute). Having graduated, he undertook a tour in Egypt, Tunisia, Jor- dan and Iraq. Back in Rafah in 1994, he took part in various events organized by the Palestinian government and the Ministry of Culture and composed music for documentary films as well as for the theatre. In June 2004, he sang at the Festival of Fez in Morocco and since then has appeared on different European stages: Ba- belmedmusic (Marseille, 2005), Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, 2004), Festival International de Clarinette (Glomel, 2005), Festival des Voix des Pays (Fougères, 2005), Il duomo del Friuli (Italy, 2005), Musical Center of Vre- denburg (Netherlands, 2006), Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels, 2006), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels, 2010), de Bijloke (Ghent, 2011). He also performed with artists such as Bernard Foccroulle, Maria Cristina Kiehr (Concerto Soave) and Hala Omram (Rithmus). His songs are inspired by the traditional musical heritage of the Al-Châm region (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine) and by the classical Arab repertory. His compositions – based on Darwish, Ibn ‘Arabî and Ruˉ miˉ’s poetry among others – talk about his homeland, the everyday life of the Palestinian people, about love and are an attempt to keep the tradition alive in a country which wavers between modernism and ancestral tra- ditions. His voice, sometimes powerful and sometimes tender, then appears as an instrument to convey a humane, loving and tolerant message in the midst of war and destruction. Since 1999, he has recorded many CDs in France, including “Chicha” (which meets Michel Montanaro and Provençal music), “Nawah” (which meets Françoise Atlan and Sephardic music), Motayem “Ivre d’amour” (which meets the ensemble Pêcheurs de Perles and Iraki music) and, more recently, “Jasmin” as well as a disc recorded with his choir Ibn Zaydoun.

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Discography on Cypres


Divine Madness | Souls in exile (Ref.: CYP1670)
When Sufism meets Renaissance melancholy. Could music have some universal power of unsettling the soul? That is the question out of which the programme 'Divine Madness' was born. As a guiding principle of both the universe of English Renaissance and that of Arab Sufism, melancholy, seen as a desire for eternity, has been a perennial source of inspiration that many generations of artists have called upon, whether they were composers or poets and whether they came from the East or the West.
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