to search out the gifted and cul-tivated who possess high morals, and when they find them, send them at their own expense to the institutes founded in the West expressly for the teaching of the cinematic art — direction, acting, scenario, and the rest. When these return to work in the field of the cinema, they will be able to give the Egyptian cinema a face other than this ugly face...

As for the side of music, the matter is graver and greater still. The music that the Egyptian musicians impose upon the tastes and the ears of the sons of the Arab world is too base for any pen to take it up in criticism. And how it pains me when I see us here in Lebanon, for example, borrowing Egyptian music and imitating it, instead of creating our own music, taking its rules from the living world music in the artistic heritage of the West.

Whoever claims that the music spread among the ignorant of the people, whether it be Egyptian or an imitation of it, is "Arab" music, is mistaken. For music, like art, does not go along with the nation-alist mania that measures absolute values by its own yardstick. There is no Eastern music or Arab music or Western music: there is "music." And it is either good or it is bad. And I do not reckon the music in which the Egyptian musicians and their imitators traffic to be anything but bad — so bad that it blackens our faces before the civilized nations and peoples.

And one of the results of the badness of this music is that it has become, like the cinema, a danger — nay, a worse one — to taste and morals. It debases taste and corrupts morals. Proof enough of its corrupting of morals is the limp melody that goes with it, stirring base sensations and dragging the listener down into the pits of sick

and evil thoughts, and the wanton dancing that accompanies it, with no aim but the arousing of lust and the awakening of the low animal instincts. The reader may take these words as an attack

without logic in it. Perhaps he will excuse me when he knows to what a pitch of disgust and indignation I have been driven. And perhaps I shall resort to logic on another occasion.

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