"Get a taste of Turkey at Ryles
By Bob Young
Friday, November 18, 2005
”I Will Survive” in Turkish? A lute slicing through a funk tune? Armenian rap?
Get ready for Middle Eastern Rap, Funk and Disco Night at Ryles in Cambridge tonight.
”We try to show all kinds of world cultures next to each other,” said Mehmet Ali Sanlikol about the organization he founded, Dunya, and the shows it presents. ”I choose to use a Turkish lens, not a Western lens.
”Have you heard Gloria Gaynor’s ’I Will Survive’ in Turkish? It was a big hit in Turkey. I’d never heard an English version. We all thought it was a Turkish song.” "
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