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Ilham Al-Madfai Returns to Al-Basra

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Ilham Al-Madfai Returns to Al-Basra

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Feb 28, 2023 08:00 EST

After cheerfully rejoicing the start of 2023 with a memorable celebration, M.Madfai Management promises its audiences a plethora of events taking place in 2023, around the Middle East.

Highlighted events for 2023 include the “Jigsaw”, which will take place in Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, as well as the Tarabband Middle Eastern tour, which is set for October and November this year.

One does not have to wait long because M.Madfai Management’s next very special and incredibly important event is on March 10, where the maestro, singer, guitarist, and composer Mr. Ilham Al-Madfai, also known as “The Beatle of Baghdad”, who has been away from Al-Basra, Iraq, for many years, will be performing his exceptional style of music and most unique pieces for a live audience, in Al-Basra.

The Beatle of Baghdad will be mesmerizing his Al-Basra audience with his pioneering fusion of oriental mixed with jazz and Latin influence and will perform his best of all-time compositions, including his masterpiece Khuttar. 

What makes this event special and noteworthy is that audiences will not only get to enjoy Al-Madfai’s music, but they also will contribute to an important and timely cause. A percentage of the proceeds will go directly to the survivors and families as part of pitching in the relief efforts of the Syrian earthquake destruction.

“It is our role, as global citizens of the world, to help those in need, especially in such dire times. We hope that soulful music continues to help us heal, and we hope to play a role in that rehabilitation,” said Mr. Ilham Al-Madfai.

Be sure to check out M.Madfai Management‘s social media pages and stay tuned for more event details and updates.

Source: M. Madfai Management

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Scottsdale Author Joe Reina’s New Novel Follows a Killer Who Gets Away With It

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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Shadows over Scottsdale: An Unsolved Murder Mystery," built around a scenario true-crime statistics make uncomfortably familiar: a man commits a devastating crime and simply disappears, leaving investigators and a grieving community with no resolution.

The book follows a character named Robert, who flees the country using forged documents and a cargo ship after an act of destruction that leaves behind, as the publisher describes it, charred remains and an unanswered investigation. The case goes cold. The novel, according to its publisher, is less concerned with the mechanics of the escape than with what happens afterward, to the people left waiting for answers that never come.

Reina, now retired in Scottsdale, spent decades in international business across apparel, footwear, and real estate, with extensive time in Europe and a particular connection to Italy that shaped two earlier books, "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen" and "A Love Affair in Tuscany." "Shadows over Scottsdale" marks a different direction, built instead around the real scale of unsolved homicide in the U.S. The publisher’s materials cite roughly 346,000 unsolved homicides since 1965, with more than a dozen occurring unresolved each day. Separate reporting on the book has cited a figure of about 7,778 murders in 2023 alone, which it similarly frames as more than a dozen a day going unresolved.

"Writing ‘Shadows over Scottsdale’ forced me to confront uncomfortable questions about justice itself," Reina said, according to the announcement. "Too many crimes go unsolved, too many families wait endlessly for answers. I wanted readers to understand that behind every cold case statistic is a real story, real suffering, and real questions that may never be answered."

The publisher positions the novel as an examination of institutional limits as much as a crime story: the toll of a case gone cold on the people who can’t move past it, and what it means for a community when accountability simply never arrives.

"Shadows over Scottsdale" is published by Covenant Books and is available in paperback and hardcover through the publisher’s website and major retailers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.

Cold-case statistics tend to get cited and then forgotten. Studio CarryOnHarry is curious whether fiction built directly around that number does more to stick with a reader than the number alone ever does.

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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters

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Joe Reina’s ‘Lost Masterpieces’ Imagines a Fictional Farewell Among Renaissance Painters

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Joe Reina has published a new novel, "Lost Masterpieces: Three Paintings, 500 Years A Journey Through Time," built around an imagined scene from Renaissance history: the night before Leonardo da Vinci leaves for Milan, when three fellow painters each hand him a small work carrying a private message.

According to the announcement, those three gifts come from Sandro Botticelli, Titian, and Andrea Mantegna, each painting standing in for a different kind of counsel. Botticelli’s piece is described as layered with allegory and coded warnings about power and patronage. Titian’s is framed as warm and sensual, suggesting reinvention and a break from convention. Mantegna’s is austere and classically precise, encoding discipline and endurance. According to the announcement, these three paintings form a wordless exchange between masters, transmitting wisdom, mutual regard, and assurance across generations through visual means.

Reina comes to this material from outside the art world. His career was built in apparel, footwear, and real estate development in Chicago, and the publisher’s materials trace his interest in European history, and in Italy specifically, to years of international business travel. He has published several previous books, including "The Goat Sleeps in the Kitchen," "A Love Affair in Tuscany," and "Shadows over Scottsdale," before turning to this account of a fictionalized moment at the hinge of the Renaissance.

"I wanted to capture that extraordinary moment when masters speak to each other across time through their work," Reina said in the announcement. "These paintings represent not just gifts, but a conversation about what it means to pursue greatness while remaining grounded in purpose and principle."

The book is published through Covenant Books and is available in hardcover and paperback, as well as through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.

Studio CarryOnHarry is intrigued by novels that build fiction around real historical figures at a specific, dramatized turning point rather than attempting straight biography — the approach succeeds or fails based on how seamlessly the fictional moment integrates with documented historical fact.

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