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  2. Tandok dance - Wikipedia

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    Tandok dance (Batak: ᯖᯢ᯲oᯃ᯲)is a traditional Batak dance originating from the North Sumatra, Indonesia. This dance tells about the activities of harvesting rice using tandok carried out by mothers in the fields. In addition, this dance also contains the importance of family values between each other. [1] [2] [3]

  3. List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

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    Other Indian films inspired by the book, include Allauddinum Albhutha Vilakkum (1979; Malayalam), Allaudinaum Arputha Vilakkum (1979; Tamil) and Daya (1998; Malayalam). The Turkish television series Binbir Gece (Thousand and one nights) is a modern re-telling of the book. It is about an architect named Şehrazat (Scheherazade) who spends a ...

  4. Dance in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Papuan tumbu tanah dance. Prior to their contact with the outer world the people of the Indonesian archipelago had already developed their own styles of dancing, still somewhat preserved by those who resist outside influences and choose tribal life in the interior of Sumatra (example: Batak, Nias, Mentawai), of Kalimantan/Borneo (example: Dayak, Punan, Iban), of Java (example: Baduy), of ...

  5. Project of Translation from Arabic - Wikipedia

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    The project had its genesis in the late 1970s when Columbia University Press invited Jayyusi to prepare a large anthology of modern Arabic literature. Funding came from the Iraqi Ministry of Information and Culture. Two major anthologies came out of this early endeavour: Modern Arabic Poetry (1987) and The Literature of Modern Arabia (1988). [5]

  6. Tortor - Wikipedia

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    Tortor (Batak: ᯖᯬᯒ᯲ᯖᯬᯒ᯲) is a traditional Batak dance originating from North Sumatra, Indonesia.This dance was originally a ritual and sacred dance performed at funerals, healing ceremonies, and other traditional Batak ceremonies.

  7. Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani - Wikipedia

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    [1] The work is characterized by the alternation of rhymed prose (sajʿ) and poetry. [ 2 ] They are narrated from the point of view of a fictitious character, 'very likely a traveling merchant who has money and time', ʿĪsā ibn Hishām, about the adventures of an eloquent beggar named Abū al-Fatḥ al-Iskandarī'. [ 3 ]

  8. Legong - Wikipedia

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    When he recovered, he arranged for such dances to be performed in reality. Others believe that the Legong originated with the sanghyang dedari, a ceremony involving voluntary possession of two little girls by beneficent spirits. [1] Legong is also danced at public festivals. Excerpts from Legong dance dramas are put on for tourists.

  9. Al Thaqafa - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Al Thaqafa was among the publications which supported Islamic Arab culture in Egypt. [4] It published literary work, cultural articles, translations from Turkish, Persian, English, French and Indian and book reviews. [5] In the 1940s one of the contributors was Mohammad Abd Al Bari who published articles on the political dimensions of ...