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Music · Het Concertgebouw · 2023Umm Kulthum: El Atlal
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The Umm Kulthum classic with Moufadhel Adhoum on oud, recorded in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

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Tunisian-Belgian singer, born in Brussels in 1968 and raised partly in Zarzis on the Tunisian coast. She sings centuries-old Sufi poetry, among it the verses of the eighth-century mystic Rabia al-Adawiyya, alongside contemporary Arabic writing.

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