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Person · Composer, oud and violin player
born 1955
Born in Tarshiha in the Galilee in 1955 to a Catholic family that moved to Haifa in 1957, he played the oud from the age of five, studied violin in Jerusalem and Arabic literature and music at Tel Aviv University, and went on to graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University. In New York he formed the Near Eastern Music Ensemble in 1982 and the Qantara ensemble in 1995, and received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994.
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Simon Hikmat Shahin
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PersonSimon Shaheen was born in PlaceTarshiha
Role: Born here: 1955, Tarshiha
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