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March 2002

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An answer to what went wrong
Nawwat Al-Karm (Al-Karm Gales), Nagwa Shaaban, Cairo: Mirette, 2002. pp295

Writing a woman's life
Gulpérie; La ballade des geôles; D'une mort à l'autre (Gulpérie; Jail Song; From One Death to Another), Gulpérie Efflatoun Abdalla, Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 2002

Music -- potent expression of Arabic heritage
Al-Satou Al-Sahiyuni Ala Al-Musiqa Al-Arabiya (The Zionist Plunder of Arabic Music), Farag El-Antari, Cairo: Dar Al-Kalima Publishers, 2nd edition 2001. pp136

Beyond the eight-tone scale
Composing the Music of Africa: Composition, Interpretation and Realisation, Malcolm Floyd (ed.), London: Ashgate, 2001. pp351

Notes from a musical life
La Musique arabe (Arab Music), six volumes, 1930 -- 1959, Rodolphe d'Erlanger, Paris: reprinted by La Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner and L'Institut du Monde arabe, 2001.

Illiterate creativity
The Graying of the Raven, Aida Adib Bamia, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2001. pp141

The first visual trick
Margo Veillon: Egyptian Festivals, ed. Bruno Ronfard, with an essay by John Rodenbeck, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002. pp104

At a glance
A shorthand guide to the month compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani

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