Ahmad Tilawi with Abu Lame'e

Ahmad Tilawi

• Attaba

• Attaba

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It's noteworthy that our internet search for Abu Lame'e yielded no results except for those featuring him in attaba dialogues with Ahmad Tilawi, without any solo work or collaborations with other artists. From this recording, it appears that Abu Lame'e is an attaba poet, and he may have had a friendship with Ahmad Tilawi that explains why he only appears in the dialogues between them. Ahmad Tilawi is considered a cornerstone in the recorded archive of the Syrian shaabi music scene. His was strongly present in the 1980s and 1990s, performing ataba, shaabi, mawwal, and dabke at private parties and weddings, to the extent that it became difficult to check a few cassettes in our archive without encountering his name. Sharing the stage with Tilawi was a rite of passage for entering the shaabi scene for several female and male singers, such as Fariha Al-Abdullah, Ibrahim Al-Saad, and Hussein Al-Abdullah, especially in the field of ataba, which Tilawi’s name became synonymous with. Tilawi lived in his city of Saraqib in the countryside of Idlib for most of his life, and did not leave it, heartbroken, until armed conflicts forced him to do so.