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Suzanne Meyers Sawa coordinates reference and interlibrary loan services, and provides bibliographic instruction in library use. Her principal area of research is women in Arabic music, from medieval to modern times. She is currently preparing a translation of medieval accounts of the lives of four Arab women musicians of the late 7th and early 8th centuries, as well as articles for the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Her publications include "The role of women in musical life: the medieval Arabo-Islamic courts" in Canadian Women's Studies / les cahier de la femme (1987) and "The Odyssey of Dahlia Obadia: Morocco, Israel, Canada" in The Canadian Folk Music Journal (1991), reprinted in Canadian Music: Issues of Hegemony and Identity (1994). As a percussionist and vocalist with the Traditional Arabic Ensembles since 1979, she has given numerous concerts and workshops, and made appearances at folk festivals all over North America. |