An oud crafted from dried bread, another from tomato boxes, and a third from cardboard... while the strings are made from sock threads. A flute fashioned from a plastic water...

I know that Qamishli was my beginning—the first images I saw, the first things I experienced in life, my first football skills and personal relationships. And what the world wanted...

“When you play these wedding tracks for a crowd in London, people jump off the roof, the music has that much energy. It’s so raw and so real and you...

Because this generation has lived through historical turns of events, we are both lucky and unlucky at the same time. The outburst of the Arab Spring revolutions and the songs...

The songs that New York City’s Syrian musicians performed from 1913 through the 1940s included recorded poems, folk songs from the homeland and original compositions telling of loss, love, fondness...

What do musicians do when they are thrust into war? How does the hand that played music handle a weapon in a conflict the musician did not choose?