In an old building near the Tigris River running through Baghdad, a weekly-staged music ensemble of Iraqi maqam offers the audience a nostalgic journey into the past everyday life of the Iraqi capital ...

The Arabic word farida means apart or alone. The Iraqi singer Farida Mohammad Ali truly is a one-off. She is one of only a handful of artists to have mastered the ancient musical discipline of maqam – ...

Chicago Maqam at Constellation in February 2023 Credit: Courtesy the Constellation YouTube channel On Saturday, December 16, Constellation hosts a Gaza benefit concert by Chicago Maqam, a five-piece ...

Performing before a half-empty room at Baghdad's Alwiyah Club, Taha Gharib is conscious that the music he has passionately played for decades -- traditional Iraqi maqam -- is dying. Victim of the ...

When Amir ElSaffar first heard the hypnotic melodies of Middle Eastern maqam music, his ear recognized the complex structures of the Western styles he had studied for years. “I can relate it to so ...

BEIRUT: In the rarefied circles of “ancient music” and “world music,” Kudsi Erguner is a star. With nearly 30 albums to his name, the Paris-based Turkish nai master and bandleader is among a few of ...

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 ...

Msheireb Museums, the art and culture destination at Msheireb Downtown Doha, hosted an evocative Poetry Night organised by the French embassy in Qatar and the French Institute, in partnership with ...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- In an old building near the Tigris River running through Baghdad, a weekly-staged music ensemble of Iraqi maqam offers the audience a nostalgic journey into the past ...