Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist”. Today it says “palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist who lived and worked for many years in berlin”.
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Habib Hassan Touma ( ) (12 December 1934 – 10 August 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist , born in Nazareth, who lived and worked for many years in Berlin, Germany.1Touma authored a number of books, essays and musicological studies on Arabic ; Turkish or Iranian music , among them The Music of the Arabs , first published in 1975 in German and translated into several languages. He was also a book review editor for the ethnomusicological journal The World of Music , published by the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin. Among other studies based on his field work in Arabic countries, he published a description and photographs of the Work Songs of the Gulf Pearl Divers of Bahrain. Another of his studies treated the Arabic musical influence on the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Al-Andalus . The World of Music . 19 (3/4): 121– 127.2
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Habib Hassan Touma ) (December 12, 1934 - 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist . He authored a number of books, essays and articles on Arabic music . He was also a book review editor at the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin , Germany .
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Habib Hassan Touma ) (December 12, 1934 – 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist . He authored a number of books, essays and articles on Arabic music . He was also a book review editor at the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin , Germany .
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Habib Hassan Touma ( ) (12 December 1934 – 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist .He lived for many years in Berlin. He authored a number of books, essays and articles on Arabic music . He was also a book review editor at the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin , Germany .
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Palestinian-Israeli ethnomusicologist and composer Habib Hassan Touma ( Arabic : حبيب حسن توما ) (12 December 1934 – 10 August 1998) was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist who lived and worked for many years in Berlin, Germany.
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palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist
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palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist who lived and worked for many years in berlin
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