Jalil Azzouz: A Palestinian Oudist at Home on the Midwest Mahrajan Circuit
Jalil Azzouz: A Palestinian Oudist at Home on the Midwest Mahrajan Circuit Jalil Azzouz, 1956. Photo courtesy of Richard M. Breaux collection. The second wave of Arab immigration to the United States began after World War II, which officially ended in September 1945. The government continued to enforce quotas on immigrants to the US from Middle Eastern countries. Even immigrants to the US from Palestine, which came under British mandate rule, faced restrictions. No matter Great Britain’s ally status during the second World War, nor small changes in the ability of certain groups of immigrants newly permitted to become naturalized citizens, the second wave of Arab emigrants, especially those from Palestine and Jordan, became more visibly present in their sponsorship of events on the eastern, midwestern, and southern hafli and mahrajan circuits. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Palestinian youth grew increasing impatient with the British Mandate government’s persecution of P...