Raks el Sharki & the Role of Art - Episode #3 with Leila Haddad

Welcome to Episode #3 of "The Oriental Café" Podcast by Joana Saahirah with our guest, Leila Haddad🎉

 🎤🎧✨In this episode, I invite Leila Haddad, an icon in the field of "Raks el Sharki" - Oriental Dance - and an inspiration of mine.

We talk about the definition of "Raks el Sharki", or the lack of one; the changes our dance has gone through; creative freedom; the social and political role of art; Om Kolthoum, and more. 

 🎤References shared by our guest:

Books

1/   Khalil GIBRAN      

« The prophet »   

2/   Maya ANGELOU  « Still I rise » (a poem, an important masterpiece of the Black Civil Rights Movement).            

All her books. Among them «I know why the caged bird sings »   

3/   James BALDWIN « Go tell it on the mountain » (more or less autobiographic book; being black and homosexual) « Blues for Sonny »… etc…  

4/   Langston HUGHES, Figure of the Harlem Renaissance  

 « The negro speaks of rivers » (a major poem; and all his books)  

5/   Franz FANON :  

« Black skins - White masks »  

« The wretched of the earth »   

Movies:  

1/   « Malcolm X »  of Spike LEE

2/   « Invictus »   of Clint EASTWOOD

3/   « Hidden figures »   of Theodore MELFI

4/   « Marshall »   of Reginald HUDLIN    

🎤How to connect with Leila Haddad:

 Leila´s website: click here to visit her website

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Leila´s Facebook Profile: click here to visit her Facebook Profile

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