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Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah: the epic of the Bani Hilal

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Epic poets of Egypt (tradition bearers); film by UNESCO
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Nau'in shaida: Al'adar baka

Har yanzu babu shi a Harshen Hausa. Ana nuna asalin English.

Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah tells, in Arabic verse, of the tenth-century migration of the Bani Hilal from the Arabian Peninsula to North Africa. Poets in Egypt have sung it since at least the fourteenth century, accompanying themselves on a drum or on the two-stringed rabab.

UNESCO inscribed the epic on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008. Its film is at the top of this page.