title: The Maqam Book - A Doorway to Arab Scales and Modes
author: David Muallem
description: David Muallem was born in Baghdad in 1931. He grew up in a musical family that was close to circles of composers and poets from whom he absorbed the richness of the Iraqi and pan-Arab music. As a child, he learned European music playing the violin and eventually participated in the founding of the first Baghdad Philharmonic Orchestra, which is still active to this day. Muallem is still in contact with members of the orchestra in Iraq.
zlib_text: THE KINGDOM OF STRANGERS 
  
  The �INGDQM ef 
  �TRANGERS 
  by eLIAS �HOURY 
  translated from the Arabic by 
  PAULA HAYDAR 
  THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS 
  FayettevilJe 
  1996 
  
  Originally published in 1993 
  by Dar al-A.dab in Beirut, Lebanon 
  Translation copyright 1996 by the 
  University of Arkansas Board of Trustees 
  All rights reserved 
  Manufactured in the United States of America 
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  Desi9neJ by A/ice Gail Carter 
  9 The paper used in this publication 
  meets the minimum requirements of the American 
  National Standard for Permanence of Paper for 
  Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. 
  Library efCon9ress Ca1al"[Jin9-in-Pub/ication Data 
  Khiirl, Ilyas. 
  [Mamlakat al-ghuraba'. English] 
  The kingdom of strangers I by Elias Khoury ; 
  translated from the Arabic by Paula Haydar. 
  p. cm. 
  ISBN l-H728-433-4 (alk. paper).­
  ISBN I - H 72 8-4 34- 2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
  I. Haydar, Paula, 196�-
  . II. Title. 
  Pj7842.H823MH13 
  1996 
  892'.736·---<lc20 
  9�-43341 
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  PREFACE 
  Elias Kho