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"We are created pulsating symphonies of continuous creation we need to discover the pulse". Kids, people, music, poetry, drama transmit that sublime rhythm. Medical doctor, committed to personal and societal health through expression/communication, writing, painting, music and drama. Believes with Osiris, Ghandi, Mozart that the highest expression of humanness is affirmative non-violence.

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Greatest teacher is Music in all its forms, the dynamic arts, and sciences especially sciences of life. Most of all learnt from Mozart and his operas which I experience as alive and great without limit. At face value sweet polished nonesensities, for elitist snobish quasi aristocratic bores. In depth, I find them the most challenging, frightening and revolutionary works of art ever produced. They explode the very foundations of the good/evil, right/wrong, winner/loser orientation in the march of human social evolution. Next comes Osiris, Gelgamesh, Ghandi, and the neglected knowledge of humanity in its virginal uncorrupted beginnings. Sophocles, Aeschylus but especially Euripides' "the Bacchae", and the recurrent Osirian drama. Studied Medicine at Cairo University, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, studied music in Cairo, Alexandria and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The medical insight into the concept of integrative, inseperable human individual and societal health has helped no end in the development and maturation of a musico-dramatic vision of the human predicament and its primordial dramas as well as yearned-for resolutions. Deeply unhappy about international dynamics since the turn of the twenty first century which should and could have been the century of pluralistic peace and harmony i.e. the century of non-violence and music!



Birth Place: Cairo,  Egypt

Accomplishments: Developed and applied the concept of "group evolution drama" in the sixties and seventies, both as growth and integration therapy and as an independent art form, and presented highly praised shows at UK student drama festivals London, Durham and Birmingham and at the Edinburgh festival of music and drama fringe(contratypeI and contratypeIII) and "the thing" directed by Sebastian Bergman and Mike Simpson. Introduced the concept of multidimensional interactive dynamism in Medicine and the health sciences in a book on Medical Endocrinology published by Mcmillan's London. Elected to the fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK.

Output on education, development and societal health largely ignored by the relevant authorities. Published medical research, includes a bulk of conventional research on thyroid disease, diabetes and Bilharzia. Much research to expose limitations of modern allopathic Medicine and to support alternative and complementary medicine as well as for the right of patients to be empowered about their own health and people to be empowered in relation to their own development. This work created overt and covert resistance in the medical and pharmaceutical establishments as well as in many power mafias. Relatively small output of poetry, music and drama, mostly conceived as for multimedia interactive performances. Writes in Arabic and in English. Hampered untill recently by his deep committment as Medic, academic researcher, teacher, public servant and NGO social worker committed to social and conceptual development(currently within the ZKH charity). Recently had a freak stroke traced to a violent attempted murder resulting in three near fatal stab wounds instigated by threatened power groups. Working hard to recover as much function as possible.
     



Poetry

Asynchronicity in the journey of life
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
enlightenment and all engulfing wisdom sadly arrives almost always too late out of synch with original, creative and unusual, events and initiatives...


mirror mirror on the wall
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
life had worked up on its evolutionary strife many highly successful formulae. The raison d'etre for the emergence of a conscience living being namely man is the potential to being the loving mother ...


crushing pyramids
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Automatic slavery to custom stealthilly steals away the creativity/life of the human soul while we admire and revere our very destroyers....


secret lamentations of modern man
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
mass media and unaccountable agencies contribute to the progressive erosion of democracy and the direction of human energies less in the service of life and more in the service of power...


To Cecilia
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
To Cecilia (This is my first published poem in the university magazine (CLARE) during a romantic phase of my youth now I am searching for publishers for the post-romantic material that came later ...


A mass for our times
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Extracts from Mass in C: a dramatic poem taking from the latin text of the mass Triggered by performances of the Bach mass in B minor and the Mozart mass in C minor. Performed as a dramatic s...


A wound that refuses to heal
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Sharing with my many lovely American friends a journey that carries with it a pain that defies resolution...


Death of spontaneity
 by Tarek Ali Hassan


when your sweet music earns you punishment for mysterious crimes
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Osiris song and letters from the underworld ...


Argument with a tormenting other-self
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Galileo was interrogated, imprisoned and tormented until he recanted his blasphemous, heretic vision that the Earth was spherical, and untill he denied the nonesensense about Earth rotating around Sun...


recipe for a socially desirable animal, black comedy
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
recipe for a socially desirable animal where and when? That is the question A touch of the theatre of the absurd...


Truth
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Elusive truth, lying truth!...


Dialogue with a fish being grilled
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
cast not this reproachful eye oh suffering fish when your crystal ball is destroyed and my burning coals de-nature your love jelly one day in the ocean deep wh...


The Sun is lured into orbit round the Moon
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
dissonance most severe the Sun is lured into orbit round the Moon...


Tiresias the blind seer
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
what is vision's weight what awful price?...


Prayer and reality sandwich
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
a meditation...


and was born an eater of the forbidden fruit
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
The turnings taken in human social evolution creating discord with biological evolution is leading the species down a blind alley of mounting violence unto destruction, unless the miracle of a new con...


palpitations
 by Tarek Ali Hassan


Intimation at dawn
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
moments of illumination on a Paris electric train at dawn...


Tragic demise of the Matriarch
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
A vision for a mime or modern ballet drama...


Songs before the end of history, an introduction to collected poems
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
SONGS BEFORE THE END OF HISTORY An introduction to collected poems by Tarek Ali Hassan from Egypt ...


Dance Macabre!
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Absurd theatre of the absurd:"at the postmortem of a friend"...


and then you knew too much!
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
excursion into ancient mythology Oedipus the most sublime contemplation on the two inseperable Oedipus plays of Sophocles, regularly separated and distanced....


In the lap of progress, for Samuel Beckett and his waiting for Godot
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Civilisation and progress: frantically engaged.....


to a Mahatma
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
'great soul'...



Articles

THE CURRENT CRISIS OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
THE CURRENT CRISIS OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE AND THE PLACE OF MUSIC...


On the betrayal of man as the greatest biological miracle
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Anthropological analysis of the misuse and abuse of the primordial human fears and hurts for the sake of power in the name of institutionalised religion or worldly power. The article is complementary ...


A multimedia assisted happening for a modern theatre
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
an experiment in non-verbal drama elisting a large degree of imaginative audience participation and imaginative use of multimedia.sometimes called modernised crucifixion and some times called "chronic...


An Historic ethical failure
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
presenting the hypothesis that with the advent of the industrial age, the unethicality of mechaised killing and mechanised impersonal killing escaped theologians and politicians sliding the advanced n...


ruminations over the failures of peace
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Ruminations over the book about the Versailles peace conference 1919 not without pertinence to the current tragedies in the Middle East Margaret Macmillan, the Peace(war)makers ...


Imhotep's last pilgrimage along the river Nile IV
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Imhotep continues to lead his genration to pentrate through the falsified story of Osiris into the real drama of Osiris suppressed by the priests and the authorities...


Imhotep's pilgrimage along the Nile III
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Imhotep the great sage,prophet, physician of the ancient World continues the next phase of his pilgrimage along the river Nile intended to reveal to the World the real passion story of Osiris. The sto...


from the forbidden passion drama of Osiris part II
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Imhotep continues to prepare the World for the momentous revelation of the forbidden history how the World was born and how the Gods quarelled over man and how they destroyed the matriarchs...


Imhotep's last pilgrimage along the Nile valley part I
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Imhotep prepares the World to take in the forbidden and hidden Osiris drama...


Dear lovely friends from the USA and and all over the world,
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Apology and explanation for long absence and communication to my many loved American and international friends...


Politically induced delusional systems
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Is the information transmitted to us by the "authorities" always true and accurate. Or are we "the public" even in the established democracies, easy prey to manipulation and a process that Bernays ref...


In search for the breakthrough virginal knowledge of human consciousness
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
On the virginal knowledge of human consciousness before all-prevailing compromise invaded all space Contemplations over human social evolution In search of the drama of Osiris ...


A tough dream of love addressed to the greatness of the American people and the United Nations
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Ghandi taught: take care of the means and the ends will take care of themselves. With the benefit of this historically penetrating teaching, the great minds of the founding fathers of America champion...


Mozart's Don Giovanni and the fear of freedom
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
An unparalelled insight into the sexuality of the human male! Mozart'Don Giovanni is one of the greatest works of art. Through the genius of Mozart equally lavished on all his characters. The musi...


Is the concept of cold war an expression of self-damaging Euro-American egocentrism?
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
In the US and the West we automatically speak of the cold war, 1945-1991. To the millions in the non euro-american world it has been the longest, bloodiest, and most devastating war in histo...


Homo sapiens or Homo militaris?
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Sapiens name of our species was meant to denote wisdom and far sight, but are we entrusting the fate of our species to the less wise Homo militaris component? What do the lessons of the last two centu...


Osiris utters a warning to Imhotep in his dream
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Osiris who gave humans the gift of creative agriculture and greening of the earth. hits a bull's eye diagnosing how religions and ideologies turn from springboards for human happines and freedom and e...


Civilisation?Progress? What does it mean?
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
without researching continuously and dynamically the concept of progress we are in great danger of causing harm when we mean to help others develop and progress. Apparently allpowerful victo...



News

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY CAIRO Chamber Music Concert
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
chamber concert at AUC on 22nd May...


New book by Tarek Ali Hassan
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
At last the general Egyptian book organisation GEBO Cairo, publishes Tarek Ali Hassan new book titled: An exploration of contemporary history in the light of a philosophy of interactive plura...


Politically induced delusional systems
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Can power create, manipulate and modify public perception of reality...


Al Mansura"Symphonic Suite, at the Cairo Opera,14th February, 2004
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
The next season starting february 2004 will include one of my symphonic suites "Al Mansura"on the 14th of February, 2004....


Cairo Opera opens its 2003 season with the fanfare for brass and percussion by Tarek Ali Hassan
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Opening Symphonic Concert for 2003 season...


The Swiss save the day!
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
Support for the ZKH foundation microcredit initiative approved from the Swiss Egyptian fund...


Tarek's dramas were student favourites at the height of the student movement in the 60s
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
A friend from the London School of Economics with whom I had lost contact of performances with great success at the University of London Student''s union theatre of one of my plays under the name "the...


The ZKH foundation for human development upgrades its services in Embaba
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
The ZKH foundation for Holistic human development is setting up a computer learning unit and an anti-illiteracy program as well as pilot experiment with support for small and micro-enterprises in one ...


David Cain of the BBC sets Mass in C to electronic music
 by Tarek Ali Hassan
David Cain of the BBC electronic music workshop sets to electronic music Tarek Ali Hassan''s Mass in C for Chorus and speaker...


Links

Mozart, Ghandi and Osiris
deeply moved by the eternal Osiris cycle, which forms a strong force in subconscious Egyptian culture with many links to dramatic poems,paintings, poetry and even articles about contemporary socio-political analysis!


beyond Euro-American centrism, Interactive pluralism as a survival necessity for all
peace and security will emerge not from sheer overwhelming power of one party but from interdependent interactive pluralism evolving more and more of the win/win principal

websibition of Osiris related paintings
a genre of expression painting linked to drama, music and dramatic poetry

The ZKH foundation for human development
THE ZKH FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT founded 1993 in honour of Zenab Kamel Hassan: A defiant Egyptian Moslem Girl who defied everything to get access to an education at all, then to get a University education which in the early twenties meant: travelling alone to London, joining Clapham High School to get the matriculation, then joining London University, Bedford College to study Science and duly graduate in Chemistry1929 to become: the first Egyptian girl to graduate in Science in modern times. Her story of constructive defiance and struggle to set a different role model for Egyptian women and women in the Islamic World is summerized in the foundation booklet (published 1996:"Responding to the Challenges of the twenty first century"). She went on to fight her way into becoming the first woman to teach men Chemistry in Cairo University! The progressive marginalisation and disempowerment of like-minded and enlightened "rebels" represents a fundamental fulcrum in the study of the mechanisms of relapse of the extremely promising and developmental leap in the whole of the region as led by Egypt after the 1919 revolution and its highly fertile associations and offshoots. How was this great promise dismembered, marginalised and disempowered with the rise of unitary totalitarianism in politics and in thought/culture/religion, is worthy subject for several doctoral theses? The Foundation believes that the key to development is re-empowering the disempowered whether these are the poorer, the younger, the non-attached or the feminine or -sadly in totalitarian regimes- the citizenry!. The establishment of dialogue with all "other" is yet another commitment.(see links for the background philosophy).


Additional information

Published, in Egypt, a multimedia drama (Soliman) in Arabic with an addendum in the form of an analysis on the subjects of: music, drama, oppression, civilisation Religion,together with searching dialogues with Islamic Youth. Most recent work is a crystallisation of Osirian drama. Imagined as though it was told by Imhotep, the great sage of ancient times some 5000 years ago, in an attempt to save the real drama from threatened oblivion. Search on "Mozart and Osiris" you will also find links to poetry, mythology, paintings and music. At the turn of the century, suffered a freak stroke, as a long term complication of a violent attack, which left him paralysed on the left side. Determined with the help of friends, faith and love to recover full function. Already made sufficient progress to be writing profusely and working to publish a collected edition of works analysing contemporary and post WWII history with special focus on the Middle East. Like many other writers on authorsden working to transform his health crisis into creative breakthrough communication to all. Always had dreams about apparently impossible multimedia expressive potential which had colored much of his writing in poetry and drama. All multimedia dreams and more have at last become a reality with the digital revolution. Now most excited to see that time is ripe for the realisation of some of these dramas and dramatic poems in multimedia format without a cieling to the imagination. It all becomes more acute as the need for dialogue between North and South and between West and East especially the West and Islam emerges as of paramount and urgent importance.

 
Contact Information

zkh charity
16 zkh street 
Cairo     12311   Egypt
Fax: 002023372303
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