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 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 ...

Syrian oud player Kenan Adnawi performed at the Damascus Opera House on Monday, presenting a program that blended Arab ...

Hani Al Sawah, the rap artist known as Al Darwish, recently walked the streets of Damascus, Syria’s capital, with a profound sense of excitement. It had been 13 years since he last set foot in his ...

CNN’s Becky Anderson goes on an Arabic classical musical journey with Syrian-American composer Faraj Abyad, who is performing with the Athar Orchestra, commissioned by the Abu Dhabi Festival, in an ...

Damascus, June 22 (SANA) Damascus hosted Music Day celebrations on Sunday with a series of performances by Syrian and French ensembles, as concerts took place across several cultural and historic ...