Barcha

Barcha episodes

January 16 Writing on Umm Kulthum, with Virginia Danielson
For this episode, I had the rare pleasure of speaking with Virginia Danielson, one of the most important voices in the study of Arab music. Best known for her seminal book The Voice of Egypt, dedicated to Umm Kulthum, her work explores how a single voice can carry history, politics, emotion, and collective memory. We talked about her path as a researcher, her long relationship with Umm Kulthum’s music, and why this legacy still feels so alive today. A conversation that felt both generous and deeply inspiring — I hope u find this talk as inspiring as it was for me :)
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41 min
January 05 Fangirling over Umm Kulthum
In this episode, I sit down with Donia Ismail — journalist, activist, former host of Je ne suis pas raciste mais… on Slate, and co-founder of Arabengers (events by and for the MENA community of Paris) — to talk about Umm Kulthum, collective memory, and what it means to deeply love an artist who shaped generations across the Arab world. Hope u enjoy the conversation as much as i did :)

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47 min

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Barcha is a word from the Tunisian dialect. It means a lot.

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