{"id":11697,"date":"2013-06-17T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T15:28:09","slug":"the-modern-face-of-arabic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11697","title":{"rendered":"The modern face of Arabic music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to travel &#8211; I&#8217;ve now visited 60 countries &#8211; and I delight in savouring the products of different cultures, whether that is music, cinema or food.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore I have recently enjoyed the haunting music of Lebanese-born Yasmine Hamdan as revealed in her latest CD called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Ya-Nass-Yasmine-Hamdan\/dp\/B00BN3WX58\/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1371482756&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Ya+Nass\">&#8220;Ya Nass&#8221;<\/a> which apparently translates as &#8220;Hey people! Yo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2013\/may\/22\/yasmine-hamdan?INTCMP=SRCH\">this article<\/a> in the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper, Hamdan is described as <em>&#8220;the modern face of Arabic music&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to travel &#8211; I&#8217;ve now visited 60 countries &#8211; and I delight in savouring the products of different cultures, whether that is music, cinema or food. Therefore I have recently enjoyed the haunting music of Lebanese-born Yasmine Hamdan as revealed in her latest CD called &#8220;Ya Nass&#8221; which apparently translates as &#8220;Hey people! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}