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 ...
At a wedding in the late 1990s in southern Syria, two well-known Hourani singers tried their hand at zajal, a traditional musical form where two guests trade lines of riposte about an imaginary love ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...