FWD: "Ziryab, the Incredible Story of the Baghdad Singer"

In this afikra FWD, Farah Cheaib talks about "Ziryab, the Incredible Story of the Baghdad Singer" - El legado andalusi. Farah forwards the Spanish article, to talk about Ziyrab, taken as a slave from Mosul to Baghdad where he became a master of the oud and song. He was then exiled and fled to Cordoba.

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afikra is all about asking questions and exploring something new. This series takes some of the questions about the histories and cultures of the Arab world asked and explored in one of our community presentations, and broadens it into a podcast episode hosted by Mysa Kafil-Hussain and Yasmin Khawaja with community members from our global chapters.

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