EXPRESS NIGHT OUT: THE KENNEDY CENTER CELEBRATES ARAB ART
For the past few weeks, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC has held concerts featuring Arab performers and their cultural inheritance. For three weeks, there has been and will be concerts at the Kennedy Center featured in a program called Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World.
“I think it will show people who come that there is a common human ground. That Arabs are people who have a culture — who produce art, who dance and sing, who write fiction and do photography.”–Ahdaf Soueif, the Egyptian writer and scholar describing the effects of the event on those who see it.
Arabesque, which is in full swing on the Kennedy Center’s stages and in its halls through March 15, is the largest celebration of said culture our shores have ever seen. Eight-hundred artists representing 22 nations — including Soueif and Lebanese singer and oud player Marcel Khalife, one of the region’s most renowned musicians — have descended upon Washington.
Here is a sample of a performance by Ahdaf Soueif.
Here is a sample of a performance by Marcel Khalife.
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