Diwân

Diwân is a studio album released in 1998 by Franco-Algerian raï artist Rachid Taha. In contrast to his earlier releases, Diwân contains less rock and punk music, and features more traditional Arabic instruments. Many of the songs are about the founding fathers of raï music, and the lyrics are in Arabic and French.

Diwân
Studio album by Rachid Taha
Released	May 26, 1998
Genre	Raï
Length	69:16
Label	Barclay
Producer	Steve Hillage
Rachid Taha chronology
Carte Blanche (1997) Diwân (1998) 1,2,3 Soleils (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	A−[1]

A video clip was made for "Ida".^[2]

Track listing

#	Title	Songwriters	Length
1	"Ya Rayah"	Abderrahmane Amrani	6:13
2	"Ida"	Rachid Taha	5:56
3	"Habina"	Toufic Barakat, Farid al-Atrache	7:27
4	"Bent Sahra"	Ahmed Khelifi	7:12
5	"Ach Adani"	Abderrahmane Amrani	6:25
6	"El H'Mame"	Mohammed El Anka	6:07
7	"Enti Rahti"	Abderrahmane Amrani	6:58
8	"Menfi"	Missoum Amraoui, Akli Yahiatene	5:03
9	"Bani Al Insane"	Boudjemaa Hgour	4:32
10	"Malheureux Toujours"	Benaceur Baghdadi, Ahmed Soulimane	6:13
11	"Aiya Aiya"	Rachid Taha	7:00

Charts

Chart (1998)	Peak position
French Albums Chart[3]	52

Personnel

• Rachid Taha - vocals
• Amina Alaoui - vocals
• Steve Hillage - engineer, guitar, mixing, producer, programming
• Kaseeme Jalanne - oud
• Nabil Khalidi - banjo, oud, percussion, backing vocals
• Bob Loveday - strings
• Pete Macgowan - strings
• Hossam Ramzy - percussion
• Geoffrey Richardson - strings
• Aziz Ben Salem - flute

Source:^[4]