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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 ...
A Syrian-American musician brings awareness to the civil war in his family’s homeland. Bassel Almadani is a Syrian-American musician who is using his platform to bring awareness to the civil war and ...
DAMASCUS, Syria May 21, 2010? -- Country music has little of a fan base in the Middle East. The crowd of Syrians that filed into Tishreen Park was mostly propelled by curiosity for a rare concert of ...
A partnership among three global organizations is bringing culturally based music education and a state-of-the-art recording studio to the people living in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan, which is ...
Over the past decade, Atlanta-based composer Malek Jandali has become one of the most significant, original and prolific figures in classical music. His compositions, which include eight symphonies ...
The music was provided by an oud: The base was a cooking pot, the neck created out of wood from a box of fruit, the strings made from sock threads and the pegs from fruit stems. The musicians were ...
When Syria’s dictatorship fell in early December, a celebration broke out nearly 6,000 miles away in Toledo, Ohio. At the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket, families danced and sang to Syrian music.