[Reader-list] Dastan-i- Amir Hamza: The superiority of orality over the written word

[Rahul Asthana]

Dear Iram,
This is a treat not to be missed.Can someone please record this and upload it somewhere?I will be much obliged.

Thanks
Rahul
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Iram Ghufran <iram at sarai.net> wrote:

> From: Iram Ghufran <iram at sarai.net>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Dastan-i- Amir Hamza: The superiority of orality over the written word
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 9:26 PM
> Legendary Urdu critic and the
> inspiration behind the recent performances 
> of Dastangoi, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, will speak on
> Dastans.
> 
> Topic of discussion will be -
> *
> Dastan-i- Amir Hamza: The superiority of orality over the
> written word
> 
> At Sahitya Academy
> 
> On Friday, 24th of July, 5 pm. 
> *
> 
> S R Faruqi, apart from pioneering works of scholarship and
> classical 
> urdu poetics, early urdu literary culture and the urdu
> modernist 
> movement,  is one of the few people in the world to
> possess the entire 
> 46 volume Hamza cycle and is the author of a three volume
> study on the 
> Dastan tradition in Urdu.
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