Iraq’s famous Music Critic, Adel al-Hashemy?, dies in Cairo

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The famous Iraqi Music Critic, Adel al-Hashemy, has passed away in Cairo on Friday, due to a sudden health problem, while being with an Iraqi musical delegation,attending the Arab Musical Festival that began in the Egyptian Opera House,according to a press source on Saturday.  “Hashemy was found dead in his hotel room in Cairo‘s Zamalek area, where he was found due to suffering from  a sudden health problem, whilst the Iraqi Embassy in Cairo was informed to fly his body back to Iraq, where it would beburied,” the press source told IraqiNews.com news agency.  Hashemy was born in Baghdad‘s Aadhamiyadistrict in 1946, flew to Cairo, where he studied Arab music for 3 years and returned back to Baghdad, where he entered al-Mustansiriya University and then worked as editor in al-Thawra Newspaper in 1967, and then he began to write indifferent Arab and European newspapers.  Then he began to write musical,literature and cultural programs and articles in the Iraqi Radio & TV Station, followed by authoring several books, including “Music and Singing during the Islamic Era, till Baghdad‘s occupation in 656 ad,” “The Iraqi Musical Course”, “The Arab Ud between Copying and Technicality”, “Kurdish Songs and Musical Notes”, “Arab Music in 100 years.”  Then, Hashemy was appointed member to the Songs Examining Committee of the Iraqi Radio A  TV, along with teaching Music in the Iraqi Musical Studies and Fine Arts Institute, along with teaching music in the Fine Arts Collage in Baghdad.