Young Palestinian artist Dalal Abu Amina performed the fourth night of the nights of "The Night of Tarab in Jerusalem's Arabs" festival, with pieces of Arabic and spiritual songs from the Arab heritage and a number of national songs.
The Edward Said Institute of Music is organizing the festival at its tenth session this year, with local and international participation.
"Jerusalem is for me the mother of beginnings and all of my projects started from them, so I always am optimistic about the good in Jerusalem and the people of Jerusalem," said Dalal, who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and her audience last night at the Yabous Cultural Center theater, located hundreds of meters from the walls of the Holy City. Jerusalem".
She added, before her evening, which spanned nearly an hour and a half, accompanied by her musical group, "Our show today is a case in which we want to try with some of it, which is a collective state of transfiguration and ecstasy with the melody to be practiced and sung in the earth and man."
Dalal, the daughter of Nazareth, was transferred in the midst of the audience's interaction between several lyrical songs of Umm Kulthum and Sheikh Imam, and other Palestinian composers.
A bulletin issued by the festival stated that Dalal, who has a velvet voice, had finished recording her new album, "Nour", which is a musical journey in Sufi poetry.
The bulletin added that the new album "includes old pieces of Sufi poets, such as Ibn Arabi, Jalal al-Din al-Roumi, Raba` al-Adawiya, al-Hallaj and Ibn al-Fard, with modern tunes and distributions developed specifically for this project."
The bulletin described the presentation (Tajalli) presented by Dalal last night on the stage of Yabous theater, as "a journey through music to the mysteries of the soul ... In (Tajali) Dalal links between the melody and the word to a state of evoking her chanting voice on a high step towards the restoration of the soul and its manifestations."
"Dalal has created, with her presence, her voice, and her longitude, and presented new songs, with melodies and distribution, Arab and Palestinian composers singing, playing, composing and distributing, and words of a high level of art befitting us and us," said Yabous Cultural Center Director Rania Elias.
"Dalal was able to attract the audience for an hour and a half and concluded with patriotic and heritage songs with the participation of the audience. I created the Palestinian Jerusalem audience with participation and singing, and this is what Jerusalem needs and we all need to remain steadfast," she added. Suhail Khoury, Director General of the Edward Said Institute of Music, said, "The Festival of Layal al-Tarab in Jerusalem of Arabs is a platform for all musicians, and also for all those who are interested in authentic music that aims to preserve the Arab cultural heritage in light of the occupation and Judaization of the city of Jerusalem."
He added in a festival bulletin that it «also aims to encourage new youth energies for musical productions specialized in authentic Arabic music aimed at improving the quality of listening, and not commercial music aimed at dancing».
The activities of the festival will be held this year in the hall of the martyr Faisal Al-Husseini in the Yabous Cultural Center, which was recently established and can accommodate about 400 people.
Dalal Abu Amina: “Jerusalem is for me the mother of beginnings and all my projects started from it, so I am always optimistic about the good of Jerusalem and the people of Jerusalem.”