When Syria’s uprising began in 2011, the streets quickly found their voice. Protest chants and revolutionary songs rose from ...
The Israeli-held Golan Heights, located right next to a civil war, has become an incubator for an experimental Arabic music scene. On The Syrian Border, Alternative Arabic Music Brews Late one ...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — When the powerful earthquake rocked her home in early February, 18-year-old Sidra Mohammed Ali woke up and thought of one thing: her music school — was it OK? The next day, as ...
Singer Abdallah Rahhal stepped on stage as the oud player picked out an intriguing tune. The musicians had met only moments before. Abdallah lifted his voice to meet the oud’s haunting semitones and ...
Damascus, Jan. 29 (SANA) The Eastern Music Ensemble on Wednesday evening presented a concert of classical Arabic music at the Damascus Opera House, offering a selection of iconic works from the ...
The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia, talking and rapping to students at Bodine High School for International Affairs in the Northern Liberties ...
Late one Thursday night, the hippest cafe-bar in the village of Majdal Shams pulses with strobe lights. The dance floor is packed. Beloved hometown band Hawa Dafi — Arabic for "warm breeze" — is ...
Singer Abdallah Rahhal stepped on stage as the oud player picked out an intriguing tune. The musicians had met only moments before. Abdallah lifted his voice to meet the oud’s haunting semitones and ...