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The spiritual religious content formed an important criterion in the selection of artists of the "Châabi" song in the city of Algiers when choosing the sung repertoire « Melḥun », that has been dubbed "Al-Djid" in contrast to a repertoire with themes of love and wine, since this...

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Ghaouti Bouali's 1904 treatise Kitāb kashf al-qinā‘ ‘an ālāt al-samā‘ was a groundbreaking work of scholarship on Algerian and Maghribi music, poetry, and language. However, both in its own time and since, readers have treated it as a marginal curiosity that was remote from both wider Arab and...

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This article offers an anthropological and philosophical study of funerary inscriptions in certain towns of the Algerian Sahara, shedding light on their symbolic, social, and cultural meanings. Through a comparison of ancient texts (such as the Nammâra and Tihouda inscriptions) and contemporary epit...

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The 32nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage on October 17, 2003. Twenty years after, comes the opportunity for UNESCO, Member States and all stakeholders involved in safeguarding living heritage to show that herita...

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The invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in 1450 allowed the dissemination of works on a larger scale and democratized access to manuscripts. In return for the prior censorship of published content, the laws granted printers the exclusive right to exploit published works, a "privilege&...

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This article examines the major transformations in Arab music from cultural and social perspectives, focusing on the case of Umm Kulthum as an exceptional figure who transcended traditional representations of the artist in the Arab world. Her career marked a significant shift—from music conceived me...

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This research aims to explore the Amazigh linguistic heritage by examining what is documented in manuscripts, spoken, and printed in books. The focus is on two samples of this heritage; the first is the Amazigh geographical names or toponyms in Touat region, which have been mentioned in various man...

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The world has witnessed numerous conflicts and wars whose effects have not been limited to human life alone but have extended to intellectual and creative output as well as various fields of life, including cultural heritage in all its classifications and designations. Cultural heritage holds great...

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We probed an open space ‘preface instances’ (paratext = peritext + epitext) (Genette, 1987, p.11) which neither falls within the authority of methodology (research and teaching), nor in the explicit field of the author’s text, nor in the book’s editor’s space. Interferences within this no-right lan...

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This research aims to reveal the symbols of popular culture in wooden dolls, and the important role of the Vocational Training and Productive Families in Al-Sharqia Governorate, Zagazig City, in employing this craft to revive the Egyptian popular culture, as this craft has a leading role in revivin...

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Cultural heritage is one of the important elements for achieving sustainable development because of its economic, social, cultural and environmental impact. Indeed, it is an axial component working to activate the other sectors, in particular those of tourism, transport, traditional industries and...

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The Tunisian Shashiya represents an essential part of the national traditional dress, in addition to having been a marker that denoted the status and the person of its wearer, it also differed according to geographical regions. This Tunisian Shashiya is of high quality, and the stages of its man...

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Algeria is endowed with a rich and diversified cultural heritage that dates back to various historical periods, and reaches 2.4 million years. The Algerian State, which is represented by the Ministry of Culture and the Arts, has made great efforts to protect, preserve, restore and enhance this heri...

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Debates in relation to patrimony are central to both material and immaterial spheres of concern. This was the case for urban musical traditions during the colonial period in Algeria, which triggered numerous controversies and polemics. This article studies some of the reactions to measures and acti...

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The classical Arabic language has preserved pronunciations, vocabulary, and meanings, such that it has closely linked the Arabs from East to West linguistically. However, the cultural linguistic sound of the pronunciation of the Arabic letters among all Arabs is variable, for each of these countrie...

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This research aims to contribute to studies of Egyptian folklore by collecting and analyzing traditional Bedouin costumes for women in Al-Husseiniya Center, Sharkia Governorate. In terms of its components and methods of decoration, in an attempt to preserve this heritage that has been subject to ex...

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One of the peculiarities of music and songs in Algeria is that of having aroused very little interest in their origins, their use and their formal characteristics for native chroniclers and scholars before French colonization. In this study, we will spread out the variety of styles and modes of...

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Based on extensive and award-winning ethnographic fieldwork on Algerian dīwān spanning 2013 until 2022, this essay engages with Rouanet’s writings on dīwān, both in terms of his colonial language and judgments but also in order to correct and confirm useful historical connections such as pointing o...

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This article revisits Jules Rouanet's study of Kabyle music, as discussed in his thesis, published in 1922, on Arabic music in the Maghreb. This study continues to provoke reflection on questions that are still current, in particular those linked to musical modernization and hybridization. The...

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