This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BAGHDAD (AP) — War kept him away from his ...

Long uprooted from his native Iraq, Naseer Shamma, an icon of the Arabic oud, has returned home to help rekindle the flame of Iraqi music. Exiled in 1993 under dictator Saddam Hussein, Naseer Shamma ...

A small but vital musical revolution has been taking place in Israel. In the last two decades, a small group of Mizrahi Jews — Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent — have returned to their ...

In the Hatikva neighborhood of South Tel Aviv, the streets and parks carry names that pay homage to seminal figures in Israel’s history. Menachem Begin Park is named after the Israeli Prime Minister ...

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 ...

Israeli musician Dudu Tassa, who opened Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with a Friday afternoon performance backed by his band the Kuwaitis and will do the same this weekend, has deep roots.

No Arabian Nights theme was used to sell tickets here. Just over a thousand people-many of them part of Miami’s Arab and Middle Eastern diaspora, but just as many from outside it-gathered beneath ...