On Sunday, April 19, the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square will commemorate the expansion with a special broadcast featuring African music. According the choir’s website, this program ...

In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran's Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran's most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

The fragile ceasefire agreement was tested again on Friday after Iran refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel and Hezbollah traded strikes in Lebanon, and Kuwait was attacked with drones.

Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

The coming season will be an expansion for the Lyric, opening next October with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” “Guys & Dolls” will ...

Fifty years ago, Lebanese singer Fairuz released a song that stirred hope and national pride. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to music journalist Danny Hajjar about its enduring significance.

President Trump said that any peace deal would not allow nuclear enrichment in Iran, and would need to keep the Strait of ...

Congregation Sherith Israel Cantor Emeritus Martin Feldman, whose voice touched generations of San Francisco Jews, has died ...

Iranian musician Hamidreza Afrideh and his wife spent a long time working to establish the Honiak Music Academy in Tehran. Earlier this month, it was destroyed in a missile strike. Fortunately, no one ...

The progressive Piker's campaign stops with Abdul El-Sayed have drawn plenty of criticism... and college students.

Since the late ’70s, the bassist has worked to map a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed ...

Arabic music, dance and culture take over Melbourne's Fed Square for Mousiqa Bil Madina, a free all-ages celebration.