Mungkin juga KM -------Original Message------- From: firman wiwaha Date: 9/6/2009 6:17:22 AM To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Arabic television lauds a Jewish Egyptian diva yahoo sama yahoogroups bukannya punya yahudi pak?
--- On Sun, 9/6/09, kmj...@indosat.net.id <kmj...@indosat.net.id> wrote: > From: kmj...@indosat.net.id <kmj...@indosat.net.id> > Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Arabic television lauds a Jewish Egyptian diva > To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 5:53 AM > > Di Indonesia, apapun yang berbau Yahudi pasti jelek dan > jahat. Lupa > bahw Yakub, Yusuf, Musa, Daud, Sulaiman, Isa, dan Harun > adalah orang > Yahudi. > KM > > ----Original Message---- > From: am...@tele2.se > Date: 06/09/2009 5:07 > To: <<Undisclosed-Recipient:>, <>> > Subj: [wanita-muslimah] Arabic television lauds a Jewish > Egyptian diva > > http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI05Ak01.html > > Sep 5, 2009 > > > Arabic television lauds a Jewish Egyptian diva > By Sami Moubayed > > > DAMASCUS - For the first time on Arabic television, a > dramatic > production airing this Ramadan, the holy Muslim month, > depicts the life > of Egyptian Jews during the 1920s and 1930s, showing them > in favorable > light as ordinary citizens, no different from Egyptian > Muslims and > Christians. > > The series is as controversial as the life of its heroine, > Egyptian > diva Layla Murad - a Jewish singer and actress who rocketed > to fame in > the inter-war years before her life was marred with > controversy after > the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. > > Currently showing on 14 Arabic channels, Ana Albi Dalili > (My Heart is > my Guide), is among the most widely watched works > > > > among 60 productions made by Egyptian and Syrian artists in > 2009. > Apart from covering the life of Layla, the work goes to > great lengths > to promote tolerance and co-existence, shattering long-held > stereotypes > against Arab Jews, showing how integrated and proactive > they were > within Egyptian society. The film is directed by Syrian > Mohammad Zuhair > and stars Syrian actress Safa Sultan. > > Layla Murad, with a powerful legacy of 27 black and white > classics in > Egyptian cinema and 1,200 songs, was one of the most > popular, talented > and beautiful Arab artists of the 20th century. She > compared in fame > only to the Egyptian Um Kalthoum and the Syrian diva > Asmahan - > together, they were the three women who competed for > supremacy on Arab > charts in the 1930s. > > Born to a Moroccan Jewish father named Ibrahim Zaki Murad > in February > 1918, Layla's mother was a Polish Jew named Gamila. Her > father was a > respected singer in the 1920s and with her brother, Munir, > a composer > and celebrity in his own right, encouraged her to sing at > the age of > 15. Her first recorded song was in 1932, composed by the > veteran Dawoud > Hosni, the same year that talkies first came to Egyptian > cinema. > > Murad was handpicked by Mohammad Abdul Wahab, the giant of > 20th- > century Arabic music, to co-star with him in the 1938 > classic, Yahya al- > Hobb (Long Live Love). She received a staggering 250 > Egyptian pounds, > making her one of the best-paid artists in Cairo. > > In addition to Abdul Wahab, she worked with famous composer > Mohammad > Fawzi, who was the romantic lead man in many of her future > works, and > with other giants like Mohammad Qassabji, Riyad al-Sunbati > and Sheikh > Zakariya Ahmad - three names who graced the songs of Um > Kalthoum, > placing the two ladies in direct competition. > > The radio and cinema boom of the 1940s aided her career. > Matters took > an unpleasant turn in 1948, when Israel was created, > prompting many of > her audience to become suspicious of her Jewish origins. > Vicious rumors > spread throughout Egypt and the Arab world - probably > started by her > competitors - saying that Murad had visited Tel Aviv and > donated 50,000 > Egyptian pounds to the newly created Israeli Defense > Forces. > > The Damascus bureau of the popular Egyptian daily al-Ahram > originally > reported that rumor. Murad categorically challenged the > rumors, but > with little luck. The damage had already been done. Syrian > Radio, > previously one of the most powerful promoters of her works, > boycotted > her songs and she was banned from entering Syria in the > early 1950s. > > Murad converted to Islam after marrying Egyptian director > Anwar Wajdi, > and often told reporters, "I am now an Egyptian Muslim!" > President > Gamal Abdul Nasser intervened on her behalf when Syria and > Egypt merged > into the United Arab Republic in 1958, lifting the ban on > Syrian Radio. > An official communique was released by Egyptian authorities > clearing > her name from all charges, including that which accused her > of having > visited Israel in 1948. > > Rumors, however, rocked her life in the 10 years after > 1948. Some said > she died in a car accident in Paris. Others said she was > married in > secret to King Farouk I. Nothing, however, compared with > the stories of > her connections to Zionism, resulting in Murad's retirement > from music > and descent into complete obscurity until her death at the > age of 77 in > 1995. > > The Zionist connection badly affected her health, both > physically and > psychologically, sending her into spells of severe > depression. At one > point, she was humiliatingly requested to show all her > financial > records to the authorities to prove that she had never made > any illegal > donations to Israel. > > She did not give a single press interview after leaving > show business, > refusing to comment on any of the upheavals in the > Arab-Israeli > conflict, ranging from the war of 1967, when Egypt's Sinai > Peninsula > was occupied by Israel, to the October War of 1973, and > finally, the > Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement of 1978. Her own > explanation for > seclusion was that she was aging and wanted her fans to > remember her > only as they saw her on the silver screen - young, bold and > beautiful. > > The one-time "Lady of Egyptian Cinema" - out of business > and fame for > more than 40 years - faced a severe financial crisis > towards the end of > her life before dying in complete bankruptcy. Her last > appearance on > screen was in the 1953 movie, Sayidet al-Kitar (Lady of the > Train). > > The new series, which carries the name of one of her most > memorable > songs Ana Albi Dalili, has raised more than a stir in Arab > media since > it began airing in late August. One scene shows Layla's > father Zaki > Murad (played by the Egyptian star Izzat Abu al-Ouf) at a > cafe with > friends who clearly, from their names, are all Muslims. > > Collectively they decide, both Muslims and Jew, to take > part in an > anti-British demonstration, in 1919. Majdi Saber, the > scriptwriter, > clearly tries to demonstrate that Egyptian Jews suffered no > > discrimination in the Arab world prior to the creation of > Israel in > 1948. Another scene shows a Jew raising funds for Jewish > immigrants > fleeing from Europe during World War II and lobbying with > Egyptian Jews > to emigrate to Palestine to increase its Jewish population. > > > Layla's father Zaki naturally refuses, patriotically > holding on to his > Arab origins. The Jew then tries convincing him to > "purchase" a > different nationality, in case tension arises between > Egyptian Jews and > Muslims. Once again, Zaki refuses. Zaki's home in the film > is free from > any Jewish symbols or Hebrew script. > > The film also revives a colorful assortment of Jewish > figures whose > names were deliberately tarnished after the Egyptian > revolution of 1952 > because of their Jewish background. Justice is done, for > example, to > Yusuf Qattawi Pasha (played by Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra), > head of the > Sephardi Jewish community in Egypt in 1924-1942. After > studying > engineering in France, he returned to Egypt to work for the > Ministry of > Public Works, then became director of the Egyptian Sugar > Company, which > cultivated and developed sugar on 40,000 acres of desert > land in the > Aswan province. He is shown as a fine Egyptian patriot who > helps build > the Egyptian economy. > > Layla's 1945 conversion to Islam is set to appear in the > 17th episode > of the series. The series shows that she converted out of > conviction, > after marrying Anwar Wejdi, and not out of political > intimidation due > to rising tension between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. We > are yet to > see how her life is portrayed once it is scarred by rumors > after 1948. > > Works like these are important in the Arab world because > they shed > light on the life of leading figures who, for political > reasons, were > grossly maltreated during the second half of the 20th > century and have > been forgotten by a young generation of Arab audiences. > Those young > people are, however, avid TV watchers during the annual > feast of > special programs every Ramadan. > > Earlier, a similar work had been made about King Farouk of > Egypt, who > for 40 years after the revolution of 1952 was depicted as a > British > agent, a drunk and sex-driven reckless man who cared only > for his > personal indulgences rather than the welfare of Egypt. The > series > showed a very different image of the man; a true patriot, a > shy youth > who did not drink, and who was obsessed in wanting to rid > his country > of the British. > > Another work aired last year about the diva Asmahan, who > died early in > 1944 amid rumors that she had been a double agent - a spy > for both the > Nazis and British during World War II. Her record was also > cleared when > the series showed that she had collaborated with the > British - without > receiving any money from them - with the sole purpose of > ridding her > country of the French. > > For years, touching on these sensitive topics was taboo, > frowned on by > censors and the families of those characters involved. Now > that the die > has been cast with Farouk, Asmahan and Layla Murad, other > works are in > the making covering the life of equally powerful figures > such as the > Syrian crooner Farid al-Atrash, ex-Palestinian leader > Yasser Arafat and > former Syrian president Shukri al-Quwatli. > > Sami Moubayed is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine in > Syria. > > (Copyright 2009 Asia Times Online (Holdings) Ltd. 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