Live piano performance of an Arabic song played by request in a public setting. Captured in one take, focusing on ...

While I was playing in public, this girl asked me to play an Arabic song — and when I did, her reaction was absolutely priceless. From surprise to pure emotion, this spontaneous music moment ...

In the mountainous Lebanese village of Qurnet al-Hamra is a musicians’ haven: a state-of-the-art studio specialized in digitizing, researching and archiving forgotten treasures of Arab music. As for ...

Their mission is to play the repertoire they were learning in his classes and to share Arabic music with the public. The group will perform Aug. 16, at the Pleasant Hill Library.

Founded by refugee musicians, a music institute in Southern Turkey tries to revive forgotten Syrian classics and integrate Turkish and Syrian cultures with music the two have shared for centuries.

All I knew was that I always wanted to play, for other people as well as myself. I learnt to play both Arabic and classical forms and enjoyed both playing and listening to music.

He learned about maqam, the Arabic microtonal musical system, and for the first time in his life, held an oud, a lute-type instrument played throughout the Middle East and North Africa. "It blew my ...