User talk:2A01:4B00:866E:AE00:D172:CF7B:454E:8394

Hello, I'm Moriwen. Thank you for your contributions to Baligh Hamdi. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! — Moriwen (talk) 17:56, 21 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello, I changed it to Arab because Baligh is an Egyptian Arab that made Arabic music in collaboration with other Arab artists. He did not make 'Middle Eastern' music which is not a real category and he has never been described as a 'Middle Eastern' artist in Arabic media. I love Baligh, and I am familiar with him since I am young.
 * Please see the following reasons for why I do not think Middle Eastern is an appropriate term to describe this artist.
 * 1. Middle East is a British-Zionist term originated from the 20th century that only exists because they wanted to introduce a 'Middle Eastern commonwealth' for Israel to have a leading role in the region and for this foreign aggression to take place.
 * 2. The 'Middle East' is just a grouping together of different "oriental cultures" that the West perceives to be similar when they are not. They have tried to tossed in everywhere from Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Turkey to Armenia before. It is notoriously nebulously defined.
 * 3. Middle East doesn't mean Central Asia clearly, it means East of Europe and defines our region in relation to Europe.
 * 4. It is an exonym to the Arabic language.
 * The endonymic terms are Arab Homeland, Arab World, Mashriq and Maghreb. These are terms that have been used for over a millennia. Baligh in interviews since start of his career used the first two while the last today is used more in text.
 * I believe the above reasons are sufficient. Baligh composed in Arabic and was Arab. Also Baligh was notorious for respecting the folklore and tradition. He even criticised the naming of composers as 'maestro' saying it was a foreign import. You can look up this interview بليغ حمدي في مقابلة تلفزيونية. In this same interview, he uses 'The Arab World' as I showed to you that Middle East is an exonym to the Arabic language.
 * If I may also add another reason, which I do not believe I should be arguing to use Arab to describe Arabs that made Arabic music, and over this foreign term Middle East, Baligh Hamdi is associated with Abdel Halim Hafiz and mainly started his career with him. Before collaborating with singers such as Warda (Arab) and Mayada (Arab). You may checkout any of Abdel Halim's many nationalist songs to determine if "he would have called himself Arab". This was a generation that gave Arabness a new definition and dimension. They developed a tradition of Arabic music that tried to stay true to itself.
 * His Arabic wiki page, describes him as Arab.. Baligh is very famous and beloved to this day. He is not only famous in Egypt, he is famous in all Arab countries. I have never seen this contestation of him being described as a Middle Eastern, which I have never seen in Arabic media. That is why I corrected it, because I found it very odd.
 * Oh, adding on, if for some reason you think the Algerian Warda isn't Arab? As I am not sure what reason you could have to believe that Middle Eastern is better. Warda was one of the singers for the song 'Watani Habibi Watani Al Arabi'. She would sing it later on in talk shows with sorrow and her last release/public appearance was a song with Obadi Al Jawhar called "Zaman Maho Zamany" (Times that are not mine). Mayada Al Hannawi is Arab from Aleppo. Therefore, for all the reasons above, the article is not better at all with worked with 'Middle Eastern' singers. It is not how they self-referred, and all these artists were part of the cultural sphere of the Arab world.