From Shadia to Fairuz, MENA youth are revisiting classic Arabic music, reviving romantic traditions that have long defined the region and continue to do so ...

German police shut down a pro-Palestine protest and arrested several demonstrators citing a ban on the use of Arabic at the ...

Sabah Al-Sudani has spent decades collecting cassette tapes—270,000 of them. As his costumers have dried up over the year and digital music takes over, he remains one of the last convinced keepers of ...

Sun 16, 8pm: The Arab Music Heritage ensemble performs classical Arab songs. Tues 18, 7pm (Free entry): A concert features Italian duo Euridice Pezzotta (flute) and Matteo Chiodini (guitar).

Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman.Umm Kulthum ...

Ahmed Adaweyah was a trailblazer – the man who singlehandedly changed the course of Egyptian and Arab music; the first Arab singer to capture the ethos and struggles and yearnings of the working class ...

Andy Taylor, founding member of Duran Duran and guitarist, is battling his stage 4 prostate cancer “as hard as he can,” ...

Ali Sethi in the minimalist video of ‘Tera Sitam’, shot and directed by Zanzie.Since Ali Sethi, a sensitive and subversive ...

US president calls king's pledge 'music to his ears'; wants 'parcel of land' in Jordan and Egypt for Gazans; doesn't believe ...

Instead, it was the moment the true scale of the challenge facing America’s Arab allies became clear. When King Abdullah II of Jordan met Trump at the Oval Office on Tuesday, there were ...

Global turmoil and cultural conflict get personal in Chicago playwright Sadieh Rifai's play at A Red Orchid Theatre, which runs through March 16.