… in 1962, Havusha’s grandfather was the famous paytan from Baghdad Gorgi Yair, who officiated as cantor in Jerusalem …

… of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry points to Iraq (especially Baghdad) and Jerusalem as the main centers of the text’s … Sami al-Shawa lived between Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Baghdad and New York to record for the leading international … longed, through music, for the cities of their ancestors (Baghdad, Tunis or Thessaloniki), cities whose cultural …

… styles from the Greater Syria region. It is widespread in Baghdad too, and even appears, by mistake, in the song …