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Andrew RobinsonIn this first biography in English of the Frenchman who unlocked the secret of the hieroglyphs
presents twenty songs in Egyptian Arabic performed by popular singers from Umm Kulthoum to Mohamed Mounir and builds a variety of language lessons around them
an anchor to the West
his attainment of enlightenment under the Banyan tree (the moment he became a buddha
Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt Coptic Archeology Andrew RobinsonIn this first biographyHager El Hadidi Zar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible world, the capricious spirits manifest their anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which require ritual reconciliation, a private sacrificial rite practiced routinely by the afflicted devotees. Originally spread from Ethiopia to the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf through the nineteenth
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