Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Iranian-born Dutch DJ Ishtar will be performing on Friday at Club Seven, Mishal Hotel, Manama. Known as the "ambassadress of contemporary Middle Eastern music", Ishtar is a multi-talented international DJ, art gallery manager and traveller.
She has been based in the Netherlands since 1990.
She has been based in the Netherlands since 1990.
Ishtar was discovered by the Arabic Lounge Nomads (Supper Club) in Amsterdam. where she remained resident until last year and now spins at national and international events, from Holland to India.
Ishtar mixes various styles into a colourful, eclectic web of sound with a passion for modern electronic world and oriental music. She's also a radio DJ presenting programmes in world music on Dutch NPS, Studio 6 and for International Iranian Radio Zamaneh.
Not one to be consumed by any one thing, Ishtar is also a lecturer and a Master of Arts graduate in Sociology of Religion from the University of Amsterdam and is artistic director of the foundation De Levante in Amsterdam, promoting Middle Eastern and North African arts and culture.
Spiritually a Sufi, she also gives monthly workshops in the art of Sufi Sema dance and has been appointed by the Tajik Sufi master Ostad Dolatmand as his spokesperson in the Western world.
On top of it all she is co-operating on a book, The Best of Two Worlds, about her life as an immigrant and on Shirin Neshat's new screen movie beginning in February next year.
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