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{{Short description|1998 studio album by Rachid Taha}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Diwân
| type       = [[Album]]
| artist     = [[Rachid Taha]]
| cover      = Diwan cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = May 26, 1998
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Raï]]
| length     = 69:16
| label      = [[Barclay Records|Barclay]]
| producer   = [[Steve Hillage]]
| prev_title = [[Carte Blanche (Rachid Taha album)|Carte Blanche]]
| prev_year  = 1997
| next_title = [[1,2,3 Soleils]]
| next_year  = 1999
}}
{{Album reviews
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r352073|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|A-}}<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1112 |title=Rachid Taha |publisher=[[Robert Christgau]] |date= |accessdate= }}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
'''Diwân''' is a [[studio album]] released in 1998 by [[France|Franco]]-[[Algeria]]n [[raï]] artist [[Rachid Taha]]. In contrast to his earlier releases, Diwân contains less [[rock music|rock]] and [[Punk rock|punk]] music, and features more traditional [[Arabic music|Arabic]] instruments. Many of the songs are about the founding fathers of raï music, and the lyrics are in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[French language|French]].
A video clip was made for "Ida".<ref name=RTida>{{cite web| last= |first=|title = Ida (Official Video Clip)|date =1998 | url=http://www.universalmusic.fr/rachid-taha/video-clip/rachid-taha-Ida-(Video-Clip)/ |publisher=Universal Music/Barclay| accessdate=8 November 2014}}</ref>
==Track listing==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="center"|#
!align="center" width="140"|Title
!align="center" width="240"|Songwriters
!align="center"|Length
|-
|1
|"[[Ya Rayah]]"
|[[Dahmane El Harrachi|Abderrahmane Amrani]]
|6:13
|-
|2
|"Ida"
|[[Rachid Taha]]
|5:56
|-
|3
|"Habina"
|[[Toufic Barakat]], [[Farid al-Atrash|Farid al-Atrache]]
|7:27
|-
|4
|"Bent Sahra"
|Ahmed Khelifi
|7:12
|-
|5
|"Ach Adani"
|[[Dahmane El Harrachi|Abderrahmane Amrani]]
|6:25
|-
|6
|"El H'Mame"
|[[El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka|Mohammed El Anka]]
|6:07
|-
|7
|"Enti Rahti"
|[[Dahmane El Harrachi|Abderrahmane Amrani]]
|6:58
|-
|8
|"Menfi"
|Missoum Amraoui, [[Akli Yahiatene]]
|5:03
|-
|9
|"Bani Al Insane"
|[[Nass El Ghiwane|Boudjemaa Hgour]]
|4:32
|-
|10
|"Malheureux Toujours"
|Benaceur Baghdadi, Ahmed Soulimane
|6:13
|-
|11
|"Aiya Aiya"
|[[Rachid Taha]]
|7:00
|-
|}
==Charts==
{|class="wikitable"
! Charts (1998)
! Peak<br />position
|-
|French Albums Chart
|align="center"| 52<ref name="france">[http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rachid+Taha "Discographie Rachid Taha"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219033351/http://lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rachid+Taha |date=February 19, 2010 }}. LesCharts.com. Retrieved 21 December 2008.</ref>
|-
|}
==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 (musician)|Geoffrey Richardson]] - strings
* Aziz Ben Salem - flute
Source:<ref name=alllm>{{cite web| last= |first=|title =  Diwân (Credits)|date = | url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/diwan-mw0000599688/credits| publisher= allmusic.com| accessdate=22 November 2014}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141221131223/http://www.rachidtahaofficial.com/ Official website]
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