Evening Listening: Old Kuwaiti Records

Evening Listening: Old Kuwaiti Records from the Qatar Digital Library

This is a lovely collection of tracks from the Qatar Digital Library collection of Kuwaiti Shellac records for your evening musical entertainment. Sit back and enjoy the sounds of time passing from musical greats such as Abdul Latif el Kuwaity.

Evening Listening: Samri

This is a Samri song "Ya Hala Belli" sung at the Bin Hussein Diwaniya in Kuwait a well known and respected space for music. (song starts 42 seconds into the video)

Feel like singing along? Here are the lyrics in Arabic

What is Samri? A little bit about it in Performing the Past: Sea Music in the Arab Gulf States By Laith Ulaby

Here is the older version recorded by Aisha AlMarta

Quote of The Day From: Cities in the Arabian Peninsula

“Aden was the second busiest port in the world after New York in the 1950s.”

— Pascal Menoret

Read  Cities in the Arabian Peninsula Introduction

Here are some photos taken in the late 19th Century of Aden (with many thanks to the Qatar Digital Library):

'Being carried to the launch from the Residency, Aden.' Photographer: unknown [‎3-b] (1/1)

'Aden Municipal Rubbish-Cart'. Photographer: Unknown [‎70a] (1/1)