Al-Nour Wal Amal
The Al-Nour Wal Amal ( Arabic النور والأمل, DMG an-Nūr wa-l-Amal ) is a symphony orchestra which was established in Egypt in 1961 and whose members are exclusively blind women.
In 1972 the orchestra played for the first time in Egypt and in 1988 for the first time abroad in the Vienna City Hall .
background
The non-governmental organization “Light and Hope” (Al-Nour Wal Amal) was founded in Egypt as early as 1954 to enable blind girls and women to get an education and thus social integration; it also runs schools. The music institute is located in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis (district) , which was run as part of the NGO from 1961 and integrated schoolgirls from the age of eight into a youth orchestra after a test until they were transferred to the adult orchestra.
The orchestra had toured 26 countries up until 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Your light is the music - blind musicians in Cairo do something unique , NZZ, July 25, 2018