• Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast

    NYUAD Institute Building Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    Andrew Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Music at NYUAD and Head of the Music Program there, combines oral history, ethnography, and musical analysis to explore how musicians in twentieth-century Mombasa used Arab and Indian musical influences to navigate questions of identity, [... more]

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  • Story of Art II: The Great Obsessions – Standing Together, Paul Guiragossian

    Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    Bassam Freiha Art Foundation's monthly lecture series, led by Dr Michaela Watrelot, BFAF Curator and Director of Exhibitions, returns with a second series – this one on individual artists rather than art movements. Nine monthly lectures, running to next June, will [... more]

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