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Friday, September 3, 2010

Naseer Shamma concert on Saturday, September 4, 2010

Iz actually looks as if there is a bit of confusion regarding Naseer Shamma's concert on Saturday September 4. The concert was scheduled on the "Nuits de Ramadan" program of the French Cultural Center for 9:30 PM and as such introduced in the Weekly Agenda. The online program of El Sawi though schedules a Naseer Shamma concert at 10:00 PM on the same night.
El Sawi confirmed their concert while I could not be able to contact the French Cultural Center by phone, and the webpage of the "Nuit du Ramadan" does not open anymore. Trying to get a clue of what's going on, I went on Naseer Shamma facebook page where he replies the following to a question about the concert:

الحفلة الاولى في المركز الثقافي الفرنسي في التاسعة والربع.. والثانية في ساقية الصاوي العاشرة والربع

He plays at 9:15 PM at the French C.C. and at 10:15 PM at El Sawi? Did I get it right? It looks logistically improbable to me. As my Arabic is very poor, can any Arabic speaking reader please be so kind to confirm? 

5 comments:

  1. ... and thanks also to Bisso who wrote to the mailbox just confirming as well. As for your question about Naseer Shamma playing atBeit Al Suheimi on Sunday, frankly I had been told that performances at Beit el Suheimi and Beit Al Harrawi would end on Sat. 4, but I will try to find out more.

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  2. Just back from the Shamma's concert at CFCC. I spoke with members of his ensemble and they told me that there is no concert scheduled for tomorrow at Beit Al Suheimi.

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  3. I'd just like to thank you so much for the great efforts.

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