"The Oriental Café Podcast‪"‬ Joana Saahirah

Welcome to episode #7 of "The Oriental Café" Podcast dedicated to Popular Dance & Music in Modern Egypt, with our guest, Sherifa Zuhur. 

🎤🎧✨In this episode, I invite Sherifa Zuhur, one of the best well-known authors and researchers in the field of Arabic Dance, Music, and Culture, and a dancer in her own right.  We go deep into polemic, dynamic, and deep conversation about the evolution of Egyptian Dance and Music, her book "Popular Dance & Music in Modern Egypt", the underground enchantment of the "Mawalid", and more.  

🎤🎧✨To listen to our Podcast on the usual audio platforms (Spotify & Apple Podcasts), follow this link: https://www.joanasaahirah.com/podcasts/the-oriental-cafe-podcast   

🎤References shared by our guest:  

Books  

1. "Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt" by Walter Armbrust 

2. "Feminism, Islam, and Nation" by Margot Badran  

3. "A Trade Like Any Other" and "Manhood is not Easy" by Karin van Nieuwkerk  You may also check the webinar Joana Saahirah´s World hosted with this author by following this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU2l96iE_9Q&t=7391s  

4. "The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)" by Samuli Schielke   

5. Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011 (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa) by Samuli Schielke   

Movies:   

Movie "Afrita Hanem" with Samia Gamal and Farid el Atrache Movies featuring Adel Imam Movies featuring Faten Hamama    

 

🎤How to connect with Sherifa Zuhur:  

To check Sherifa´s books, follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Sherifa-Zuhur/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ASherifa+Zuhur  

To visit Sherifa´s Facebook Profile, follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/sherifa.zuhur   

 

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Welcome to Episode #6 of "The Oriental Café" Podcast by Joana Saahirah about the biggest tabus surrounding Egyptian Dance and how it´s so easy to destroy them🎉

🎤🎧✨In this episode, I "spill the beans" and tell it like it is in regards to the biggest tabus, or prejudices, in regards to Egyptian Dance. I expose those nonsensical ideas and destroy them. In a wink.

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***About Joana Saahirah

Joana Saahirah is a world-renowned Oriental Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, and Author specializing in Egyptian Oriental and Folkloric Dances, Personal Discovery & Empowerment.

She's written and published 3 books - “The Secrets of Egypt – Dance, Life & Beyond” -, "Behind the Curtain", a collaboration with the Slovenian Photographer, Breda Jurecko; and "The Lessons I Learned from the Master".

Joana started her career in Egypt, where she lived and performed with her orchestra for 8 years; she worked with Mahmoud Reda as his Teaching and Choreography Assistant; and, from Egypt, her career expanded into a global phenomenon having taught, performed, and lectured in China, Japan, New Zealand, United States and Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine, France, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Italy, England, Ireland, Cyprus, Greece, amongst other countries.

One of the most well-known, respected, and original Oriental Dancers in the World. After almost a decade of Life and a Career in Egypt with her orchestra – rescuing the ORIGINS and ESSENCE of Egyptian Oriental and Folkloric Dance -, Joana Saahirah has created a style (of teaching, choreographing, and performing) that UNITES EAST and WEST; the best of Egypt and the best of western open and free mind; technique and expression; healing and art; the reconnection of MIND, the HEART, the BODY, and the SOUL.

Joana has been a constant presence – as an invited artist, choreographer & teacher – at major International Oriental Dance Festivals. She´s also the founder of Joana Saahirah´s World and Joana Saahirah´s Online Dance School, pioneering Online Platforms promoting authentic Egyptian Dance, Self-Discovery & Empowerment.

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Welcome to Episode #5 of "The Oriental Café" Podcast by Joana Saahirah with our guest, Perla Elias Nemer🎉

 

 🎤🎧✨In this episode, I invite Perla Elias Nemer, a talented and out-of-the-box dancer, choreographer, teacher, musician (and more).

We go deep into a fascinating, cozy, and fun conversation about personal freedom, the renaissance of the "Awalim", the relationship between Art and Sociology, Mahmoud Reda´s influence, and what it means to create and exist without labels. 

 

 🎤References shared by our guest:

Books

1. "Midnight in Cairo" by Raphael Cormack 

2. "Il dio che danza" by Paolo Pecere          

3. "Inside Arabic Music: Arabic Maqam Performance and Theory in the 20th Century" by Johnny Farraj and Sami Abu Shumays

4. "Fare Music Insieme. Uno studio sulle relazioni sociali: Classici di Sociologia" by Alfred Schutz and D. Pacelli 

 

Movie:  

"Tamr Henna" directed by Hussein Fawzy featuring the iconic "Golden Era" dancer, Naima Akef

 

🎤How to connect with Perla Elias Nemer:

Perla´s Instagram: click here to visit her Instagram Profile 

Perla´s Facebook Profile: click here to visit her Facebook Page

 

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In this episode, I reveal my dream-making formula, the one I´ve been using since I can remember to turn my dreams into reality. Even the ones the world claimed were "impossible".

 

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👉Joseph Campbell´s quote mentioned in this episode: 

"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.” 
 

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

Leila´s Instagram: click here to visit her profile

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

 

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Welcome to Episode #2 of "The Oriental Café" Podcast by Joana Saahirah🎉 

 

🎤🎧✨In this episode, I´ll tell you how Egyptian Dance changed my life. I mean, drastically.

As I usually say, there´s Joana before this dance and Joana after it.

In this episode, you´ll discover how that radical transformation happened. Far away from the prejudices and the clichés, there´s a real alchemy that happens when you fall in love with this art form - in this episode, I reveal what that alchemy is about.

 

🎤In this episode, we´ve offering Bonus Resources and a Gift only available to the subscribers of our Podcast Newsletter. To receive our future bonuses, subscribe to our Podcast Newsletter (link below). 

 

🎤RECOMMENDED COURSES:

🧿For more information about "Your First Egyptian Dance & Self-Empowerment" Course, follow this link: click here for more information 

🧿 "Joana Saahirah´s Signature Course" - Egyptian Dance & Self-Empowerment from the ABC to Mastery. To join the Waiting List for the next edition of the course, follow this link: click here for more information about our Waiting List 

 

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