On Saturday, October 11th, the Takht Ensemble from the National Arab Orchestra (NAOTE) played a concert of traditional music ...

Roger Kashou’s fingers flew across the stretched plastic skin of a goblet-shaped drum resting on his lap. They coaxed a bright, melodic series of “tek tek tek” sounds from the sweet spot along the rim ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) In 2022, I embarked on learning to play two traditional drums used in the folk music of my hometown of Basra in southern Iraq. One is known as the“khishba,” with its music ...

“The technique in the Al Ayala chant imitates military life. It starts slowly with the key players standing in a semi-circle with the Thakmira, Al Raas and Al Tar drums. It then gradually picks up ...

One of the Arab world’s most popular performers, the 35-year-old Egyptian singer Amir Diab, entered the Sheraton Ballroom like a prize-fighter over the weekend to the squeals of hundreds of women.

12 June 2008 Khan Murjan is Wafi's latest development and is an authentic Islamic souk with an Arabic architecture based on a 14th century souk in Baghdad.At the heart of the souk there is a courtyard ...