A stroll through the extraordinary experience that was the Qayna, the free/enslaved women that also came from conquered people – free due to their perfect mastery of poetry and vocabulary, of singing and instruments.
This art of saying/singing/dancing in verb, of blending rhythm with such diverse melodies, the richness/power of these women and their place in society that is now lost is what Abid and Addi wanted to recognise – beyond history and what they lived through.
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