CKUT Voices from Egypt - Zakaria Ibrahim, founder, El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music, Part 3 by Lillian Boctor

Zakaria Ibrahim is a folk-music researcher, musician, founder of the El-Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music and an Egyptian activist. Lilian Boctor sat down with Zakaria Ibrahim in Cairo at the El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music on 26 June 2011, and spoke with him about his long struggle and sacrifice to revive, preserve and promote Egyptian folk and cultural music, the internal displacement of Egyptians in the 1950s and 1960s, the various Egyptian folk traditions, such as Zar and the Simsimiyya and Tanbura instruments, the roots of Sudanese Rango music in Egypt, the international success of the folk music groups he created throughout Egypt, the relationship of art and revolution and his decades-long involvement in social justice movements in Egypt, including the student movement in the 1970s. 2012 marks the 23rd anniversary of the first group Zakaria Ibrahim developed, El Tanbura, which, along with the other folk music groups that Zakaria has worked with, have had a significant presence in Tahrir Square during the revolutionary uprisings of the past year.
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LISTEN TO PART 1: http://soundcloud.com/lillian-boctor/ckut-voices-from-egypt-zakaria
LISTEN TO PART 2: http://soundcloud.com/lillian-boctor/ckut-voices-from-egypt-7
LISTEN TO THE FULL INTERVIEW: http://soundcloud.com/lillian-boctor/ckut-voices-from-egypt-9