While playing piano in public, a girl approached me and asked if I could play an Arabic song. I wasn’t sure how it would go, ...

This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on December 26, 2023. Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: Danny Hajjar is a Lebanese American music journalist and curator of the weekly ...

Encompassing dozens of countries inhabited by close to 500 million people, the Arab world is enormously diverse, and its music reflects that. Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st ...

While I was playing in public, a girl came up and asked me to play an Arabic song. I did my best — and what happened next was ...

In this FRONTLINE/World exclusive, a San Francisco-based world-music maestro pays homage to his Jewish and Arab musical roots. Check out dj Cheb i Sabbah's playlist of six songs that exemplify the ...

A group of musicians are causing a sensation in Jordan by reviving the golden age of Arab song -- and not one of them is under the age of 50. "I would give you anything for the feast, my angel." ...