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Program&#160;Friday 19 NovemberLocation&#160;: Ras Mekonnen Hall, Addis Ababa University     8:40  am Welcoming address, Dr. Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis, Director of the  Institute of Ethiopian Studies and Director of the Skunder Boghossian College of Performing and Visual Arts, AAU.     8:50 Opening Remarks - Ato Dawud Muhammed, State Minister, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.     9:00  Significance of the workshop, Sheikh Ahmedin Sheikh Abdullahin Chello  President, the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, Addis Ababa.     9:10 &#8220;Jeba&#8221; traditional Coffee Ceremony - Coffee break   PANEL 1Moderator&#160;: Dr Fekade Azeze, Addis Ababa University     9:50  An Hommage to the Late Berhanu Gebeyehu&#8217;s Study on Menzuma Literature -  Dr. Eloi Ficquet, French Center for Ethiopian Studies.     10:00 Heroic qualities of Epic standards in Menzuma - Assefa Mamo, Bahir Dar University     10:30  Eighty Five Years of Inter-disciplinary study on Menzuma and Manzuma  related genres&#160;: An overview - Kemal Abdulwehab, Institute of Ethiopian  Studies, AAU     11:00  A Brief Stay with the Menzuma star&#160;: Sheikh Muhammed Awol Hamza.  Introduction by Ato Idris Muhammed, department of Philology, AAU.  Performance of two menzumas by Sheikh Muhammed Awol Hamza     11:30 End of the first panel &#8211; closing remarks by the organizing committee.     12:00 Lunch break     Afternoon&#160;: Friday prayer time &#8211; no paper presentations     4:30  Cocktail at the Skunder Boghossian college (situated at Siddist Kilo,  in front of Oromia Supreme Court, on the beginning of the road to the French Embassy)Saturday 20 NovemberLocation&#160;: Ras Mekonnen Hall, Addis Ababa UniversityPANEL 2Moderator&#160;: Ato Ahmed Zekaria, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, AAU     9:00  Menzuma tradition in the Harari region of Ethiopia&#160;: Preliminary  observations - Dr Simone Tarsitani, Durham University, UK.     9:30 The role of Zikiri to Harari people&#160;: past and present - Muna Abubakir, Linguistics and Philology Department, AAU.     10:00 Women and children&#8217;s religious repertoires in and around Harar - Dr Ilaria Sartori, Independent scholar, Italy     10:30 Coffee break   Moderator&#160;: Mr&#160;Francis Falceto     10:45 Zikri in Harari Pop songs - Dr Wube Kassaye, Yared School, AAU.     11:15  An analysis of a Menzuma text collected in Awsa, Afar region - Dr Eloi  Ficquet, French Center for Ethiopian Studies &#38; Aramis Houmed Soul&#233;,  French Center for Ethiopian Studies     11:45 General Discussion     12:00 Lunch Break  PANEL 3Moderator&#160;: Ato Semieneh Ayalew, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, AAU.     14:00  The Characteristic features of Menzuma as a Genre of its own and the  functions it serves&#160;: An Ethnographic approach - Rukya Hassen, Wallo  University.     14:30 The role of Zekkara in narration of oral history in Arsi - Hassen Muhammed Kao, Arabic Department, AAU     15:00 Coffee Break  Moderator&#160;: Dr Alula Pankhurst     15:15  Evocating and Evicting Awlya (Saints)&#160;: A Few Comments on Menzuma  Performance in Oromya Regional State - Dr Thomas Osmond, Haramaya  University.     15:45  Glorifying the Virtues of the Prophet and the Virtues of Local saints&#160;:  The Shonki, Geta, and Chali Menzuma of Wallo - Dr. Ahmed Hassen, Addis  Ababa University     16:15 General Discussion     16:45 End of the workshop   18:30-20:00 Menzuma Concert at the Alliance Ethio-Fran&#231;aise with&#160;:     Muhamed Awol Hamza (Amharic)     Qetibare group (Gurage)     Raya Abba Mecha (Oromo)     Eliyas Ahmed Adus (Harari)   Organizing Institutions :&#160; Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University - Centre fran&#231;ais pour les &#233;tudes &#233;thiopiennes (Addis Abeba)