 Cairo Congress of Arab Music

The Congrès du Caire (Congress of Arab Music; ; "Mu'tamar al'mūsiqā al-'arabiyya") was a large international symposium and festival that was convened by King Fuad I in Cairo, Egypt from March 14 to April 3, 1932.It was suggested to Fuad by baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger, and was intended as the first large-scale forum to present, discuss, document and record the many musical traditions of the Arabic world from North Africa and the Middle East (including Turkey).