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092 0  780.92 Asmahan|bengelska 
100 1  Zuhur, Sherifa 
245 10 Asmahan's secrets :|bwoman, war, and song /|cby Sherifa 
       Zuhur 
264    Austin :|bCenter for Middle Eastern Studies, University of
       Texas at Austin,|c©2000 
300    247 pages, [10] pages of plates :|billustrations, 
       portraits ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Middle East monograph series ;|vno. 13 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and 
       index 
520 1  The great Arab singer Asmahan was the toast of Cairo song 
       and cinema in the 1930s, as World War II approached. A 
       Druze princess actually named Amal al-Atrash, she came 
       from an important clan in the mountains of Syria, but 
       broke free from her traditional family background, left 
       her husband, and became a public performer, a role frowned
       upon for women of the time. She was also rumored to be an 
       agent for the allied Forces during World War II. Through 
       the story of Asmahan and her musical career, the reader 
       glimpses not only aspects of the cultural and political 
       history of Egypt and Syria between the two world wars, but
       also the change in attitude in the Arab world toward women
       as public performers on stage. 
600 07 Asmahān,|d1912-1944|2fast 
650  7 Singers.|2fast 
650  7 Sångare|2sao 
651  4 Syrien 
651  7 Syria 
655  4 Biography 
655  7 Biografi|2saogf 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aZuhur, Sherifa.|tAsmahan's secrets.
       |dAustin : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University 
       of Texas at Austin, ©2000|w(OCoLC)639335180 
830  0 Middle East monograph series ;|vno. 13 
907 00 180910