- Lusail Museum Conversations
Echoes of Cairo: Reviving Egyptian Music from 1900
Explore Egyptian musical styles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries with pioneering ensemble Oxford Maqam. This conversation reveals how historical Arabic musical traditions are being rediscovered, reinterpreted, and kept alive for new generations. It will be followed the next day by a live concert featuring selected works innovatively revived from this period.

Speakers

Prof. Martin Stokes
Ethnomusicologist
King’s College London

Dr. Bashir Saade
Lecturer
University of Stirling

Dr. Sophie Frankford
Anthropologist of Music
King’s College London

Prof. Alain Fouad George
Director of the Lusail Institute and GU-Q Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence
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