Growing up in Chicago, Amir ElSaffar’s most vivid contact with Iraqi culture came through food. Though his mother’s ancestors settled in America during the 1600s, she had learned to prepare the ...

These paths converge in Prunka’s Arabic music-meets -jazz project Nashaz, which features a coterie of New York musicians selected for their abilities to meld jazz and world musics, playing Prunka’s ...

BROOKLYN — MUSIC LOVERS CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY got a preview of Brooklyn-based composer and documentarian Eugene Marlow’s latest feature-length documentary, “Jazz In Arabic Culture.” The ...

BERLIN (AP) — Arab musicians in Berlin are bringing their musical roots to Germans – with a little help from American jazz. At the monthly Arab Song Jam in the German capital, musicians use famous ...

Does Islamic music have anything to do with the blues, jazz and rock? A whole lot, asserts Dr. Hussein Rashid, a native New Yorker who teaches religion at Hofstra University. In a lecture at Southern ...

“He who has captivated hearts with his beauty, was charmed at last. And he spent his night complaining about his ardent love.” So sings Lebanese musician Rima Khcheich from the lyrics of the Fotenna ...