Late one Thursday night, the hippest cafe-bar in the village of Majdal Shams pulses with strobe lights. The dance floor is packed. Beloved hometown band Hawa Dafi — Arabic for "warm breeze" — is ...
The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia, talking and rapping to students at Bodine High School for International Affairs in the Northern Liberties ...
This is a 500-year-old song that carries both Turkish and Arabic elements. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in non-English language). CHANG: It's being taught in southern Turkey by Syrian classical ...
The National Arabic Music Orchestra captivated a full house at the Damascus Opera House last night with a special concert titled “Sung Poems”, celebrating the rich tradition of Arabic poetry set to ...
Sometimes when musician Hesham Hamra plucks the strings of his oud, he is flooded with images of his homeland, Syria. "Every now and then I close my eyes and go from our house in Damascus to a ...
This performance marks the world premiere collaboration between the Syrian master oudist/violinist and composer, Anwar Diab Agha and rising star vocalist Gaida. They will perform the classics from the ...
BEIRUT — Sabah Fakhri, a commanding Syrian tenor who helped preserve classical Arabic music with marathon-length concerts around the world, including one 10-hour performance without break in Caracas, ...
CHANG: It's being taught in southern Turkey by Syrian classical musicians, refugees from Aleppo. The two cultures, Syrian and Turkish, have shared music and art for centuries. And as NPR's Fatma Tanis ...
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