Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

Even during the tensest days of the intifada, the four Jewish and four Arab musicians of the SheshBesh ensemble performed before mixed — and appreciative — audiences. The ensemble’s fusion of western ...

University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Waterloo provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In 2022, I embarked on learning to ...

The emirate’s rich musical heritage offers visitors the opportunity to gain an insight into many aspects of its culture. Celebrated oud composer Faisal Al Saari, plays in Abu Dhabi’s cultural center ...

A world music celebration fusing Arab music with danceable Detroit rhythms is coming to The Garden Theatre in Detroit on Thursday, Sept. 29, featuring 11 musicians and belly dancers. Clawson resident ...

DUBAI, 24 May 2007 -- The market in traditional Arabic musical instruments is booming, according to exhibitors at PALME Middle East 2007, an event ongoing at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre ...

The precise plucking of a string with his nail creates an internal experience for musician Farzad Amoozegar-Fassie. From this spiritual perspective, the setar is a part of Amoozegar-Fassie’s body and ...

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 ...

CAIRO — An Egyptian girl plays music on oud, an ancient Arabic musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House in a historical area of Cairo. The piece she is playing is the Chinese folk song Molihua ...

For the past two seasons, Mark Cudek, chair of the Peabody Institute's Early Music Department, has included a concert of medieval Christian, Jewish, and Arabic music in the schedule for his ensemble, ...

Performing on a stage garlanded with carnations from Gaza, 19 Palestine refugee children from the Nimreen Music Centre performed classical Arab ballads at the annual Music in Me gala in Amsterdam on 6 ...