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 ...

Damascus hosted Music Day celebrations on Sunday with a series of performances by Syrian and French ensembles, as concerts ...

The world's attention has been on Syria for weeks; a country mired in chaos, a geopolitical conundrum, a complicated moral dilemma. But what about Syria's musical landscape? This week's Rhythm Planet ...

The program will focus on the work of Dalal, an oud virtuoso, composer, and scholar from Aleppo, whose career spans decades of collaboration with leading traditional singers including Sabah Fakhri, ...

Seven women swathed in chadors, their eyes barely visible through netted apertures, stride purposefully toward seven marble headstones in a forest clearing. A lone woman in traditional Kurdish garb ...

The Shajan Ensemble performed a concert of traditional and classical Arabic music in Homs on Sunday as part of the city's ...