“I’m quite a coward,” Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. “I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career.” It’s a surprisingly candid confession from ...

Twenty-one years after returning from combat in Iraq, Mesa composer Dr. Jason Phillips will present a lecture and concert Friday focused on how music helped him heal from the trauma of war. Phillips ...

The Iraqi refugee crisis has been out of the headlines for awhile. But few of the more than two million people who fled the country have gone back. Aid agencies are looking for new ways to find money ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UNHCR) - A trio of refugee musicians from Iraq have released their first album on some of the world's leading music-sharing sites and have agreed to use the profits to help ...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The notes of musical scales resonate from the children's sometimes-squeaky clarinets, challenging the roar of low-flying choppers outside. Pianos keep time for ballerinas who practice ...

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Last week Haider Lefta took the boards off his shop hiring out musical instruments and session bands for parties, and dusted off a wooden "oud" -- the traditional Arabic lute ...

The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Dean’s Advisory Committee on International Initiatives, and the ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The illustrious Kadim Al Sahir, whose name is virtually synonymous with the romance of Arabic music and revered as The Caesar of Arabic Music, proudly announces ...

After avoiding Saddam Hussein’s secret police, enduring the bombing of their practice space, dodging death threats and navigating sectarian warfare in their native land, four Iraqi musicians who ...