The Music Gallery, 197 John St. Tickets: $35 Regular | $25 Members | $20 Students, Seniors | $30 Advance (or $25 Advance for Group of 4-6): canadian-arabic-orchestra.eventbrite.com The Canadian Arabic ...

The traveling, thinking musician has been a fruitful template this year, with exciting work from Damon Albarn's Democratic Republic of Congo supergroup and Jace Clayton's Beyond Digital. The latest ...

From broken furniture to unwanted sexual advances, Craigslist has a reputation for being the site of many unhappy accidents. As a general rule, users vet ads through their spelling and grammar—the ...

When he was growing up in Beirut, Tarek Atoui had little interest in Arabic music. He wasn’t alone; many Lebanese of his generation, myself included, tuned in to mainly American and European music. He ...

SHARJAH: The day after “Revisiting Tarab” made its world premiere in Sharjah, a member of the New York-based trio Anti-Pop Consortium reported that someone in the audience had complained of a ...

Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum performs on November 14, 1967, at the Olympia concert hall, in Paris. | AFP Photo Stringer / AFP The great Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz compared her to a preacher.

The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music (ESNCM) is launching its month-long Nights of Tarab celebration as part of the Arab Jerusalem Festival which kicks off on November 8. Many singers and ...

I like to listen to Jazz music while I do household chores. Like ironing my shirts. And that is precisely what I did on August 6, 2014, when I first listened to Lisan al Tarab, pianist Tarek Yamani's ...

NEW YORK (AP) — With a loud hiccup and a hand over her mouth in coy embarrassment, Madame Tayoush mimics Lebanese diva Sabah in her performance of the sultry classic “Atshana” — or “I’m Thirsty” — as ...

For hundreds of years, a haunting style of folk music said to leave listeners in an ecstatic, trance-like state has flourished in Aleppo. For years, Hamam Khairy’s grandfather worked the land with his ...