Chercheurs
Kawkab Tawfik
kawkab dot tawfiq at gmail dot com
Anthropology, ethnomusicology, arabic and islamic studies, ethnography
Membre scientifique à titre étranger
Università di Viterbo La Tuscia, Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Istituto Interculturale di Musica Comparata - Fondazione Cini, International Committee for Traditional Music and Dance (ICTMD), The Society fo
"ASWAT programme; ""The catalogue book “Talismans and Zār Accessories of the Cairo Ethnographic Museum: Rituals, Magic and Music” (for the IFAO press), a comprehensive inventory of the talismanic objects in the collection with a classification system based on object types, iconography, intended purposes, and cultural significance. The catalogue includes chants transcriptions, audio recordings, photos, and audio-visual documentation of the Zār rituals.
er and Crossing Boundaries”."" ; Production of a scientific documentary featuring Zār Salila ritual (project at Fondazione Cini)"
er and Crossing Boundaries”."" ; Production of a scientific documentary featuring Zār Salila ritual (project at Fondazione Cini)"
PhD Cultural Heritage and Territory (2020), University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Tuscia University of Viterbo (Italy), Dipartimento di Studi linguistico-letterari, storico-filosofici e giuridici – DISTU, Lecturer (Docente a contratto) of History and Culture of Islamic Countries (L-OR/12).; Arabic Language and Literature (L-OR/12); Arabic Dialectology (L-OR/12)
zar rituals, zikr communities, talismanic collection of the Ethnographic Museum, music and trance, music and identity
ASWAT programme organizer; Diego Carpitella Fellowship: production of a scientific documentary on the zar ritual for Salila, the spirit of the water
- Kawkab Tawfik, The simsimiyya lyre from Suez Canal, ideological and organological development, in “East & West” (Dec 2021), ISMEO – The International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies.
- Kawkab Tawfik, Lo Zār in Egitto: una ḥaḍra nel Delta del Nilo, in “Sounding Frames. Itinerari di musicologia visuale. Scritti in onore di Giorgio Adamo”, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, Palermo, pp.273-279, with audio-visual essay: https://youtu.be/yCfRWy6I4Fg.
- Kawkab Tawfik, Musica, possessione e nuovi media nei rituali zār del Cairo, in Chiarofonte L. (ed. by), “Musica e incontri con gli spiriti nell’era dei media”, Nota Editore, Udine, pp. 65-84.
- Forthcoming : History and circulation of the Zār recordings in Cairo and Delta and new form of sacred places, in Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (ed. by), Création musicale et électrification sonore en Méditerranée - XXe-XXIe siècle, Égypte/Monde Arabe”, CEDEJ, Cairo.
- Forthcoming : Lāylat al-Sitt al-Kabīra. Nubian traces in a zār ritual of Dār al-Salām (Cairo), in V. Gasperini, G. Zaki, G. Cecere (eds.), “Gateway to Africa. Cultural Exchanges Across the Cataracts (From Prehistory to the Mamluk Era). Proceedings of the International Conference held at the IFAO between November 1st – 3rd 2022”, BiEtud, Ifao, Le Caire.
- Kawkab Tawfik, Lo Zār in Egitto: una ḥaḍra nel Delta del Nilo, in “Sounding Frames. Itinerari di musicologia visuale. Scritti in onore di Giorgio Adamo”, Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, Palermo, pp.273-279, with audio-visual essay: https://youtu.be/yCfRWy6I4Fg.
- Kawkab Tawfik, Musica, possessione e nuovi media nei rituali zār del Cairo, in Chiarofonte L. (ed. by), “Musica e incontri con gli spiriti nell’era dei media”, Nota Editore, Udine, pp. 65-84.
- Forthcoming : History and circulation of the Zār recordings in Cairo and Delta and new form of sacred places, in Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (ed. by), Création musicale et électrification sonore en Méditerranée - XXe-XXIe siècle, Égypte/Monde Arabe”, CEDEJ, Cairo.
- Forthcoming : Lāylat al-Sitt al-Kabīra. Nubian traces in a zār ritual of Dār al-Salām (Cairo), in V. Gasperini, G. Zaki, G. Cecere (eds.), “Gateway to Africa. Cultural Exchanges Across the Cataracts (From Prehistory to the Mamluk Era). Proceedings of the International Conference held at the IFAO between November 1st – 3rd 2022”, BiEtud, Ifao, Le Caire.
- Zār musicians’ resilience and class marginalisation between National Folk Troupes’s stages and Ritual Space, Music and Class – Perspectives from Egypt, Past and Present, 3-4 December 2024, Schelling-Forum der BAdW, Würzburg University.
- Embodying The Water: Performing Salīla’s Zār Ritual, 15th Symposium Mediterranean Music Study Group, International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance: The Body in Action: Performance, Work, Ritual and Dance, 23 – 26 September 2024, Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum, Palermo.
- Music YouTube Videos and the use of the shaabi in the Egyptian National Propaganda post-2011, Listening in: Music and Power in Egypt, June, 9th 2024, CEDEJ, Cairo.
- ASWAT a model of scientific and artistic co-production with a social impact, Séminaire des écoles françaises à l’étranger: quand la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales rencontre la création artistique. EFA, EFR, IFAO, EFEO, CVZ, 28-30 September, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid.
- Music memory of slavery, colonial and class subjugation in Egyptian zār, Producing Critical Knowledge in the Arab Region, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, May 25-28, Beirut
- The Dūr Abū al-Ġaiṭ and the sīra of the oppressed. Music and ritual shift from ḏikr to zār in the Ṭarīqa Aḥmadiyya Ġiṭāniyya (Egypt), April 25, Department of Musicology, Uppsala University.
- Zār talismans, Knowledge Transmission and Ritual Performance, April 18, Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies (TORS), University of Copenhagen.
- Shaping urban imaginary and identity in music video clips, SPACEPOL, Space And Politics: Capital Cities As Instruments Of Political Struggle And Power, 10th January 2022, CEDEJ, Cairo
- Technologies and circulation of the Zār recordings in Cairo and Delta and new form of sacred places, Création musicale et électrification sonore en Méditerranée - XXe-XXIe siècle, MedMus - Méditerranée(s) musicale(s) : Techniques, circulations et représentations, 6-7-8 novembre 2022 - IFAO (Le Caire).
- Music Memories of Religious and Cultural Encounters in Nubian Zār. The Case of the spirits: al-Sitt al-Kabīra, al-Ǧammāl, Salīla and Yāwra Beh, Gateway to Africa: Cultural Exchanges Across the Cataracts (From Prehistory to the Mamluk Era), IFAO, Cairo, November 1-3.
- Embodying The Water: Performing Salīla’s Zār Ritual, 15th Symposium Mediterranean Music Study Group, International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance: The Body in Action: Performance, Work, Ritual and Dance, 23 – 26 September 2024, Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum, Palermo.
- Music YouTube Videos and the use of the shaabi in the Egyptian National Propaganda post-2011, Listening in: Music and Power in Egypt, June, 9th 2024, CEDEJ, Cairo.
- ASWAT a model of scientific and artistic co-production with a social impact, Séminaire des écoles françaises à l’étranger: quand la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales rencontre la création artistique. EFA, EFR, IFAO, EFEO, CVZ, 28-30 September, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid.
- Music memory of slavery, colonial and class subjugation in Egyptian zār, Producing Critical Knowledge in the Arab Region, Arab Council for the Social Sciences, May 25-28, Beirut
- The Dūr Abū al-Ġaiṭ and the sīra of the oppressed. Music and ritual shift from ḏikr to zār in the Ṭarīqa Aḥmadiyya Ġiṭāniyya (Egypt), April 25, Department of Musicology, Uppsala University.
- Zār talismans, Knowledge Transmission and Ritual Performance, April 18, Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies (TORS), University of Copenhagen.
- Shaping urban imaginary and identity in music video clips, SPACEPOL, Space And Politics: Capital Cities As Instruments Of Political Struggle And Power, 10th January 2022, CEDEJ, Cairo
- Technologies and circulation of the Zār recordings in Cairo and Delta and new form of sacred places, Création musicale et électrification sonore en Méditerranée - XXe-XXIe siècle, MedMus - Méditerranée(s) musicale(s) : Techniques, circulations et représentations, 6-7-8 novembre 2022 - IFAO (Le Caire).
- Music Memories of Religious and Cultural Encounters in Nubian Zār. The Case of the spirits: al-Sitt al-Kabīra, al-Ǧammāl, Salīla and Yāwra Beh, Gateway to Africa: Cultural Exchanges Across the Cataracts (From Prehistory to the Mamluk Era), IFAO, Cairo, November 1-3.
- ASWAT seminars (2021-2025); Symposium: “Listening in: Music and Power in Egypt”, June, 9th 2024, CEDEJ, Cairo; Symposium: Musica, trance e stati di non ordinaria coscienza, April 13-14, 2023, ISMEO Institute, Palazzo Baleari, Roma.
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Personal audio-visual archive on zar and zikr rituals to be catalogued and published within the MedMus program