“روضة البلابل” - “Rawdat al-Balabel” by AMAR

AMAR

Since we launched the “Foundation for Arabic Music Archiving and Research”, our first priority has been to spread the rare musical heritage in our possession. Since 2009, we have decided to resort to the periodic publishing of CDs. We have started this as we have also decided to produce and to conduct a research for broadcast programs on the Internet drawn from our archives. These broadcast programs remained projects until our foundation reached an agreement with the Sharjah Art Foundation to work in partnership in order to conduct the execution of this project. This is how our broadcast will start, with two weekly programs, throughout the year, uploaded simultaneously on the Sharjah Art Foundation’s and our Foundation’s web sites. Each program will be 30 minutes to 45 minutes long and will be available to all as every person can listen to the programs or download them on his personal computer. It is also possible to read the programs in Arabic or their English translation. The subject