Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

Two decades and counting into a career in which he’s established himself as one of the Middle East’s most acclaimed instrumentalists, you’d forgive Dubai-based oudist and guitarist Kamal Musallam if ...

Fujairah: The Fujairah Cultural and Media Authority (FCMA) is set to host an event to celebrate a traditional musical instrument favoured by poet-singers throughout the Arab world early next month.

After eating Arab cuisine and listening to musician Ronnie Malley play the oud on stage, Northwestern’s Middle Eastern and North African Student Association shared Arabic-based poems with each other ...

Spreading the melody of Arab music through a little-known instrument On television, classical Arab instruments, I have found, are usually played by middle-aged to older gentlemen and as part of an ...

Palestinian American father-daughter duo Fuad Foty and Fairouz Foty are pillars of Arab American culture in D.C. The result of their 35 years of activism, cultural celebration, and building solidarity ...