Fatima may refer to:

People[link]

• Fatima (name), a female given name
• Fatima bint Muhammad, daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad
• Fatima Jinnah, the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• Our Lady of Fátima, an approved Marian apparition at Fátima in 1917 to Jacinta and Francisco Marto and Lucia Santos
  • Three Secrets of Fatima, the visions and prophecies claimed to be given by the apparition
  • Fatima Prayer, prayer originating from the apparition
• Fatima Robinson, Los Angeles based director and hip-hop choreographer
• Fatima Whitbread, Olympic Athlete

Music[link]

• Fatima, second album by Italian symphonic black metal band Riul Doamnei

Places[link]

• Fátima, Portugal, Portuguese town where the vision of Our Lady occurred (see above)
• Fátima, Buenos Aires, country town in northern Buenos Aires, Argentina

Schools[link]

• Our Lady of Fatima University, in Valenzuela City, Philippines
• Fatima College, a secondary school in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Other[link]

• Fatima (film), an upcoming Pakistani film
• Fatima Massacre, an incident occurring in Argentina in 1976, when 30 illegally-detained prisoners were murdered by gunfire and their bodies disposed of by dynamite
• Fatima (cigarette), brand of cigarettes popular in the United States during the middle of the 20th Century
• "Fatima", a short story by Rudyard Kipling in Soldiers Three (1888)
• Fatima (FSS), humanoid computers in the manga The Five Star Stories
• Fatima the Gracious, biography of Fatima Zahra
• Our Lady of Fatima (sculpture), a public artwork in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

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Fatima Bhutto فاطمہ بھٹو
Born	(1982-05-29) 29 May 1982 (age 30) Karachi
Nationality	Pakistani
Alma mater	Columbia University SOAS, University of London
Occupation	Writer, columnist, journalist

Fatima Bhutto (Urdu: فاطمہ بھٹو) born, Fatima Murtaza Bhutto (Urdu: فاطمہ مُرتضیٰ بھُٹّو) on 29 May 1982, is a Pakistani poet, writer and journalist.^[1] She is granddaughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the niece of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and daughter of Murtaza Bhutto.

She came to public note after the publication of her first book, a collection of poems, "Whispers of the Desert". She received notable coverage for her second book, "8:50 a.m. 8 October 2005".^[2][3][4] She is active in Pakistan's socio-political arena,^[5] supporting her stepmother Ghinwa Bhutto's party the Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto), but has no desire to run for political office.^[6]

She currently writes columns for The Daily Beast, New Statesman and other publications.

Biography[link]

Bhutto was born to Murtaza Bhutto, the son of former Pakistani president and prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and an Afghan Pashtun mother, Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto, the daughter of Afghanistan's former foreign affairs official.^[4] in Kabul, while her father was in exile during the military regime of general Zia-ul-Haq. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and her father took Bhutto with him moving from country to country and she grew up effectively stateless. Her father met Ghinwa Bhutto, a Lebanese ballet teacher in 1989 during his exiled in Syria and they married. Bhutto considers Ghinwa to be her real mother and political mentor.^{[4] [7]} Her father was killed by the police in 1996 in Karachi during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto, and her mother unsuccessfully attempted to gain parental custody of Bhutto.^[4]

She lives with her stepmother, and her half-brother Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr^[8] in Old Clifton, Karachi.

Education[link]

Bhutto completed her B.A. degree in Middle Eastern studies^[9] from Barnard College^[2][10] in Manhattan, USA, after receiving her secondary education at the Karachi American School. She received a master's degree in South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.^[11]

Politics[link]

Following the assassination of her aunt, Benazir Bhutto, her entrance into politics has been speculated. In interviews, she has stated that for now she prefers to remain active through her activism and writing, rather than through elected office^[4] and that she has to "rule a political career out entirely because of the effect of dynasties on Pakistan" referring to the Bhutto family dynasty and its ties to Pakistani politics. Although Bhutto is politically active, she is not affiliated with any political party^[12]. She also expressed great sadness at her estranged aunt, Benazir Bhutto's death.^[13]

Publications[link]

The title of Bhutto's book 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005 marks the moment of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake; it records accounts of those affected. She has also written a book of poetry, Whispers in the Desert. A memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published in April 2010.^[14]

See also[link]

• Bhutto family
• Politics of Pakistan
• Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto)
• List of Pakistani writers

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Fatima Bhutto Website
• Fatima Bhutto: Living on the Edge by William Dalrymple for the Times Online, 18 May 2008
• Fatima Bhutto on Her Memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword
• In Conversation: Songs of Corruption: Christian Parenti with Fatima Bhutto, The Brooklyn Rail

Hermeto Pascoal
Photo by Tom Beetz
Background information
Born	(1936-06-22) June 22, 1936 (age 76), Arapiraca, Alagoas, Brazil
Genres	Brazilian traditions, jazz, forró
Instruments	Keyboards, button accordion, melodica, saxophone, flute, others

Hermeto Pascoal (born June 22, 1936) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil.^[1] Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and contributor to many other Brazilian and international albums.^[2]

Biography[link]

Early life and career[link]

Pascoal comes from a remote corner of northeastern Brazil, an area that lacked electricity at the time he was born. He learned the accordion from his father and practiced for hours indoors as, being albino, he was incapable of working in the fields with the rest of his family.^[2]

Hermeto's career began in 1964 with appearances on several Brazilian recordings alongside relatively unknown groups. These now-classic albums and the musicians involved (Edu Lobo, Elis Regina, Cesar Camargo Mariano) established widely influential new directions in post-bossa Brazilian jazz.

In 1966, he played in the Sambrasa Trio, with Airto Moreira and Humberto Clayber; they released only one album, Em Som Maior. Then he joined Trio Novo (Airto Moreira, Heraldo do Monte, Theo de Barros) and in 1966 the group, renamed Quarteto Novo, released an album that launched the careers of Pascoal and Moreira.^[3] Pascoal would then go on to join the multi-faceted group Brazilian Octopus.^[4]

International fame[link]

He initially caught the international public's attention with an appearance on Miles Davis's 1971 album Live-Evil, which featured Pascoal on several pieces (which he also composed).^[2] Davis has said that Pascoal was "the most impressive musician in the world". Later collaborations involved fellow Brazilian musicians Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. From the late 1970s onward he mostly led his own groups, playing at many prestigious venues, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979. Other members of the group have included bassist Itibere Zwarg, pianist Jovino Santos-Neto and percussionists Nene, Pernambuco and Zabele.

Known as o Bruxo (the Sorcerer), Hermeto often makes music with unconventional objects such as teapots, children's toys, and animals, as well as keyboards, button accordion, melodica, saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass and folkloric instruments.^[2] Perhaps because he grew up in the countryside, he uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, in which the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon: a Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water. Folk music from rural Brazil is another important influence in his work.^[2]

Between 1996 and 1997, Hermeto surprised the musical world with a book project, Calendário do Som, which contains a song for every day of the year, including 29 February, so that everyone would have a song for his or her birthday.^[2]

He and his wife Aline Morena currently live in her hometown, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.^[2]

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• The official site
• Interview and extensive information and discography

Omar Khairat (Arabic: عمر خيرت; A composer, pianist, founder and conductor of "Omar Khairat's Group". Born in Cairo. He was raised in a family of musicians. His uncle is Abou-Bakr Khairat, the great Egyptian composer and architect who established the Cairo Conservatoire and enriched the Arab music with great symphonic pieces. Influenced by this legacy Omar Khairat discovered new musical dimensions in the emotions and memories of the Egyptian and Arab personality. He joined the Cairo Conservatoire in 1959, studied piano with Italian Maestro Vincenzo Carro and followed correspondence courses in music theory and composition with the Trinity College in England. Omar Khairat shaped his musical identity as a professional independent composer achieving new musical visions characterized with deepness and richness. His debut performing in film music was The Night of Arresting Fatma in 1983. According to music experts and critics, Omar Khairat's music bridges contemporary Arab music and Western music reflecting genuine maturity. Moreover, he is considered to be one of the most outstanding composers presenting successful works like The Fortune-teller, The Magic Perfumes (1989), and the Arab Rhapsody (1992). He also composed music for international events like the National Feast of Oman 1993, the Inauguration Ceremony of Bibliotheca Alexandrina 1996, Carthage Festival, Tunisia, Operetta El Sheikh Zaid, Emirates 2000, Panorama El Abour "Symphonic Poem", Musical Impact Cairo 1991, Fine Arts Cycle Spain 2004, October Celebrations 2000, Celebration of the Royal Jordan River Institution 2005, Garash Festival 2003, Three Civilizations Celebration in Spain, Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Egyptian Cinema etc. Omar Khairat understands Arab emotions and music which helps him to attract a large audience from the whole Arab region. He regularly performed at the Cairo Opera House and all the Egyptian and Arab ceremonies during the last fifteen years. His repertoire of cinema includes more than fifty works: The Sixth Day, 1984, Am Ahmed Case, The Execution of a Dead Man, A Divorced Woman, The Servant, Elhanna Neighbors, The Terrorist, 1993, Hell under Water, Take Care of Your Mind, Grandchildren Conflict, Sokoot Hansawar, The Ostrich and the Peacock, 2001, Mafia 2002, Girl's Love, 2003, The Embassy in the Building, 2005, The Deer's Blood, 2006 and Mafish Gheir Keda, 2006. His works in television drama music are Ghawayesh, The Miser and Me, Abla Hekmat's Conscience, Moon Face, The Fox, Knight's Age, Escaping to Prison, Afandina's Daughter, Agent 1001, The Salt of the Earth, The Emperor, Matter of Principle, Law in Islam, In Bad and Good Times, Date with Destiny and others. Omar Khairat also rearranged works of the great composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab like Wahabiat 1 and 2 in addition to songs of Um Kulthoum which achieved great success. Omar Khairat received Arab and international awards like the Oman Award 1993, a Certificate of Merit and the Shield of the 7th Cairo International Song Festival 2001, the Emirate Ministry of Media Award 2004, the Royal Jordan River Institution Award 2005, Certificate of Merit and the Shield of the Alexandria International Song Festival 2006, Certificate of Merit and the Shield of the 30th Cairo International Film Festival 2006. And in 2008 he received the Middle East Music Award (MEMA)

Compositions[link]

Among his many compositions:

TV Drama:

• The Society (El Gama3a)
• The Bangles
• The Miser and Me (El Bakheel wa Ana)
• Escape from Prison
• Face of the moon
• This Man (Hatha Al Ragol)
• The Second Meeting (Al Leqa2 Al Thany)
• Spring in the Storm
• Homes Have Secrets (Lel Beyoot Asrar)

Movies:

• Welad El-aam (Cousins)
• The Island (El Gezeera)
• Taimour and shafeeaa
• aasal eswed (Molasses)
• Mafia
• The 6th Day
• Deer’s blood
• Escape from the Mental Hospital
• The Forbidden Time
• The Hostage (Al Raheena)
• Love Also Dies (El 7ob Aydan Yamoot)
• The Night of Fatima's Arrest (Lelt el Abd 3ala Fatma)
• Places in the Heart (Makan fel Qalb)
• Search for Diana
• Silence, we’re rolling (Sekoot, 7ansawar)
• Slumber in Honey (El Nom fel 3asal)
• The Terrorist (El Erhaby)
• Uncle Ahmed's Case (Adeyet 3am Ahmad)

Operettas:

• 100 Years of Cinema
• Al Amarna Hill

Others:

• Arabian Rhapsody (Symphonic Work).
• The Sourceress and the Magical Perfumes (Commissioned by Diana Calenti for her dance company).* The Music for The Opening Ceremony of The 11th Pan-Arab Games (performed by the British Symphony Orchestra).
• The Music for The Opening Ceremony of The Asian games in Doha (ASIAD 2006) (performed by the British Symphony Orchestra).
• The Nile (ballet by the Cairo Opera Ballet).

Awards[link]

He won more than 20 awards for his soundtracks of the following movies: Escape from the Khanka (the Egyptian Society for Cinema 1988), The Search for Tout Ankh Amoun (the Egyptian Radio and TV Union 1997), El Noum Fe El Asal (the Egyptian Society for Cinema 1997), The Ostrich and the Peacock (the Tebessa Festival in Algeria 2001), The Ostrich and the Peacock (Alexandria International Cinema Festival 2001), Sokoot Hansawar (the Golden Knight Award from the Egyptian Radio and TV Union 2001, and the Middle East Oscar for best song), Mafia (the Egyptian Cinema Oscar from the Art of Cinema Association 2003), The Embassy in the Building (the Egyptian Cinema Oscar from the Art of Cinema Association 2005), and Agent 1001 in best soundtrack by public voting 2005.

On the year 2008, Omar Khayrat won the middle east music award (MEMA), and on April 29, 2010 he won the award of composing the best sound track for welad el aam movie at the cairo national film festival.

CD and DVD releases[link]

• Am Ahmed.
• Arabian Rhapsody.
• Bangles.
• Egyptian Overture CD, DVD and VCD.
• Fatma.
• Mrs. Hikmat's Conscience.
• Murcia Tres Culturas DVD and VCD.
• Panorama.
• The Modern Woman.
• The Second Meeting.
• The Sorceress and The Magical Perfume.
• The Vision.
• Festival or Tolerance.

See also[link]

• List of Egyptian composers
• Music of Egypt

References[link]

External links[link]

• Omar Khairat official page
• Omar Khairat's web page
• Clip from "Ahmed's Case"
• Clip from "The Cheap and Me