Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Mustafa Said is stripping Arab classical music down to its essentials in his Heart to Heart concert series in Qatar. (All ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters Life!) - Centuries ago, Arab servant girls would serenade the caliph or ruler, a tradition that Syria's only all-woman classical Arab music band is reviving in modern form -- without ...

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, ...

Ali Paris, voice and qanun, Faisal Zedan, percussion. Moroccan Gnawa, Egyptian Samai, Syrian Longas – musical forms rarely heard in the West, yet beloved by millions of people across Northern Africa ...

Sometimes a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down; sometimes the sugar can taste like medicine. When Palestinian violin and oud master Simon Shaheen attempts to make Arabic classical music more ...

As a Miami resident for more than 50 years, I’ve seen our region transform into a hub of arts and culture, positioning our city among the greatest in the world. Deeply rooted in our identity is our ...