Special music night performed by Ahmad Al Salhi Ahmed Al Salhi is a Kuwaiti musician and Ethnomusicologist. He is a talented violin and oud player specialising in classical Arabic and Turkish instrumental music. He is a very cultured instrumentalist with keenness on precision. As an ethnomusicologist, his knowledge of Middle Eastern musical forms, scales and beats is second to none.
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DAI in corporation with the Belgium Embassy invites you to a spectacular Music Night “Mapping Roots” performed by Michel Vrydag,Bram Weijters and Daniel Jonkers. Michel Vrydag is a bassplayer and composer. Besides being active on the Jazz scene, he has also toured and write music with the Louvat Bros. (Folk & World music. They won the 2012 Liz Meyer award for the most innovative European Bluegrass Band) and play rock with Z-Band. He toured with Paul Di’Anno the original singer of the legendary Iron Maiden.
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Marwa Hamdi
Oriental Music Night “Arab stars” performed by Marwa Hamdi. Swap to Arabic Marwa was the main goalkeeper of the Egyptian women soccer team. She has been singing for 10 years, leaving the sport after her preference to music and singing. She’s is being participating in the Egyptian Opera House singing beautiful and classic songs by the most famous singers in the Arab world. The concert will include music of Baleegh Hamdi, Muhammad Abdulwahab, Riyadh Alsenbati, and Ahmad Mishari Aladwani
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Striking a Diplomatic Note 14
DAI in corporation with the Embassy of Mexico invites you to a spectacular Mexican Night performed by the Rumberos Band. Rumba is more than just a style. It is party, madness, dance and freedom. It is a lifestyle that brings up unknown parts of ourselves; faces we don’t usually show. This trio was born in the streets of Boston, MA as an acoustic experiment seeking to forge an intimate connection with the audience. Whether they found Rumba or Rumba found them, Ángel Céspedes, Lito de la Isla and Paul Sefchovich gave birth to a recipe of latin rock, blues, huapango & reggae, that was later baked in old fashioned Boston.…
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Featuring International Cinema 12
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Meena Aziz
A Classic Oriental Music Night performed by “Meena Aziz”. The Concert will perform some of the most famous Arabic Songs and best classics of all times by Maestro Muhammad Abdulwahab. It will also include some western songs.
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A new reading of the history of the Arabian Peninsula of recent archaeological discoveries in Saudi Arabia
A lecture titled “A new reading of the history of the Arabian Peninsula of recent archaeological discoveries in Saudi Arabia ” presented by Dr. Ali Bin Ibrahim Alghabban. Dr. Ali bin Ibrahim Alghabban is a Vice President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities and General Supervisor of King Abdullah cultural heritage project.
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DAI in association with the Embassy of the Brazil in Kuwait, You’re invited to a special Latin Night “Waves of Brazil” with Yamandú Costa (7-String Guitar) The Brazilian seven-string guitar is an acoustic guitar used primarily in choroand samba. It was introduced to Brazil in the late 19th century as a steel string guitar. The style of “baixaria” counterpoint and accompaniment technique was developed throughout the 20th century, especially by Dino 7 Cordas and Raphael Rabello. In the early 1980s, guitarist Luiz Otavio Braga had a nylon string version made, and this has become the norm for most contemporary choro musicians such as Yamandú Costa.
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Mohamad Arshad – Bansuri and Nasser Alqahtani
Music Night titled “Melody of Thoughts” performed by Mohamad Arshad – Bansuri and Nasser Alqahtani – Piano Mohamad Arshad is a Bansuri player from Jhang Sadar, Pakistan. He has been playing this traditional Punjabi folk instrument for more than 30 years. He is well known among Kuwaiti artists, with whom he has played and enjoyed music for the past 21 years that he has spent in Kuwait. Nasser Alqahtani is a pediatrician that fell in love with piano since the age of ten when he was a student of Sulaiman al-Dikkan. He has been playing and composing music ever since and tonight he will premier some of his compositions.
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Kuwait: A societal and historical overview
Hesham Al-Awadi Dr Hesham Al-Awadi is Professor in History at the American University Kuwait. He was lecturer in Modern Middle East Politics at Exeter University and Visiting Professor at George Washington University. He completed his BA, MA, MPhil and PhD in the field of Middle Eastern History, in various British universities including the University of Cambridge. The recipient of the Innovative Lecturer Award, his taught courses include History of Kuwait and History of the Gulf. Kuwait: A societal and historical overview The lecture will offer a general overview of Kuwait’s history and society. It will discuss the founding of Kuwait, relations with the Ottomans and the British, politics and government…
