Founded by refugee musicians, a music institute in Southern Turkey tries to revive forgotten Syrian classics and integrate Turkish and Syrian cultures with music the two have shared for centuries.

BERLIN (AP) — Arab musicians in Berlin are bringing their musical roots to Germans – with a little help from American jazz. At the monthly Arab Song Jam in the German capital, musicians use famous ...

This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on December 26, 2023. Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: Danny Hajjar is a Lebanese American music journalist and curator of the weekly ...

A small but vital musical revolution has been taking place in Israel. In the last two decades, a small group of Mizrahi Jews — Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent — have returned to their ...

Essam continued to produce music abroad, but some of those he worked with were swept up in the crackdown against dissent in his home country. In May this year, filmmaker Shady Habash died in prison ...

After featuring the Sultana of Tarab Music, the Prince of the Arabic Violin, the Master of the buzuq, Hajja Zeinab El Mansouria, the rich music of Yemen, episode 1 and 2, Arab songs of satire and ...

Nadia Lando is an American born-Jordanian Spaniard singer-songwriter. On Instagram she has amassed a burgeoning following in the hundreds of thousands. The Los Angeles-based artist recently released a ...

The rhythms of Dabke dance, the scents of Mansaf and warak enab, and the sounds of poetry and song filled the Louis Room at the Norris University Center on Friday evening as students celebrated Arab ...

Tonight, I will sing for Beirut, but also for every city in pain. And for every people dreaming of peace. For every city in ...

Nabulsi appeared on the Middle Eastern version of The X Factor in 2013 when he was 19 years old. His 2018 song “Howeh El Hob” was viewed more than 100 million times in five months, and the following ...

Saad Lamjarred first appeared in the talent show “Superstar” in 2007 and released his first album, “Wala 3alik,” in 2013. He released his most famous song, ”LM3ALLEM,” in 2015 and his first song in ...