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Syncretism & the Contemporary Ghazal
Musician Ali Sethi in conversation with Associate Editor Kamil Ahsan
Ali Sethi
The Ghazal originated in Arabia in the 8th century. That's the funny stuff right? That in order to retrieve legitimate cosmopolitanism, we have to go back to a medieval multicultural moment.
The Ghazal originated in Arabia in the 8th century. That's the funny stuff right? That in order to retrieve legitimate cosmopolitanism, we have to go back to a medieval multicultural moment.
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Interview
Music
Ghazal
Art History
Historicity
Syncretism
State Repression
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Khabar-e-Tahayyar-e-Ishq
Siraj Aurangabadi
Mah Laqa Bai
Sensuality
Metaphor
Cultural Repression
Art Practice
Sound
Poetic Form
Performance Art
Grief
Raaga
ALI SETHI is a Lahore-born writer and musician. He is the author of the novel The Wish Maker and a contributor to The New York Times op-ed page. Ali is also a classically trained vocalist. He made his singing debut on Season 8 of Coke Studio Pakistan and was featured on the soundtracks of Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) and Sarmad Khoosat’s Manto (2015). In 2019 he performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall. As of July 2018 he is working on a record with producer Noah Georgeson.
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