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 women’s Sayyidat al-Nagham Choir performed rarely heard songs from Syria’s musical heritage at the Arab Cultural Center ...

Pakistan, Sept. 20 -- Syrian singer Assala Nasri has made a triumphant return to Damascus with a sold-out concert following 15 years of exile due to her opposition to ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad.

The Syrian star, one of the Arab world’s most famous artists, had been in self-exile since 2011 after she openly supported the uprising against the since-ousted Assad government.

An ordinary public piano session turned into a memorable musical moment when Syrian singer Faia Younan joined pianist Aurélien Froissart for an impromptu live performance. Surrounded by passersby, the ...

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, ...

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 ...