Western classical music and traditional Arabic musical heritage came together at the Damascus Opera House on Monday during ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artists from Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Morocco will perform at the Le Guess Who? international music festival in the ...

Staccato lyrics may be no match for Bashar al-Assads military firepower, but two brothers, who fled to Paris from Syria and perform as "Refugees of Rap", find sniping with words a liberating ...