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Prior to the liberating influence of mobile phones and SMS messages it was not always straightforward to contact one’s sweetheart in Egyptian society, owing to the strong divisions between gender and the strict etiquette of courtship. ET founder member Zakaria Ibrahim retells a romantic Dama song in which the singer is filled with nostalgia for his lover upon hearing Turtledoves singing in a tree.

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The sad cry of the turtledove and pigeons
On the branches
On the branches, my lover
The sad cry of the turtledove and pigeons on the branches
On the branches, my lover
The sad cry of the turtledove and pigeons filled my romantic heart with nostalgia
Oh eye, Oh night
The poor heart of the lover is consumed with much suffering

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from Friends of Bamboute: 20th Anniversary Edition, released November 23, 2012

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El Tanbura بور فؤاد, Egypt

El Tanbura is a collective of veteran Egyptian master musicians, singers, fishermen and philosophers. For nearly twenty- five years they’ve been custodians to some of Egypt’s oldest folk melodies at their home in Port Said, the Mediterranean gateway to the Suez Canal. Their music is driven by the seductive call of the Simsimiyya - an ancient lyre dating back to the times of the Pharaohs. ... more

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