Farid al-Atrash

Anti-government protesters took over the "Sixth of October" Bridge overlooking Tahrir (Liberation) Square in Cairo on Thursday. Soldiers that were…

CAIRO — Egyptian army tanks and soldiers moved to end violence between anti-government protesters and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in…

Supporters and opponents of of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak threw rocks at each other across Tahrir Square on Thursday afternoon. Egyptian army…

CAIRO — Supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak charged into Cairo's central square on horses…

Farid el-Atrash spread it about a bit. The Egyptian musician, who died in 1974 at the age of 59, earned his living as an oud player, singer,…

CAIRO  — Egypt's  Supreme Administrative Court upheld a ruling on Saturday, that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip citizenship from…

The annual Jerusalem International Oud Festival, run by Confederation House, has certainly taken off. On November 12 the country's premier ethnic…

Ethnic music is not just about flowing clothes and unfamiliar instruments. The seventh annual Oud Festival will kick off at Tzavta in Tel Aviv on…

The seventh annual Tzavta Oud Festival in Tel Aviv will take place August 23-27 with a host of stars from across the local musical spectrum. Over the…

Violet Salameh may have made a first-rate accountant, but that would have deprived her audiences across the globe of an enchanting and enriching…

After their first three boys were stillborn, the Azi family prayed to the Druse prophet Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, to ward off the evil eye.…

This year's Arab language monodrama festival will run from July 27-29 at the Crusader Fortress in the Old City of Acre. The event, called Mascharid,…

Israel FestivalHenry Oguike Dance Company (UK)Jerusalem TheaterJune 17This young Welsh-Nigerian choreographer is a serious voice in the future of the…

The music world is littered with intriguing band names. The Fifties and Sixties produced all manner of troupes with celebrated insect names, although…

This is traditionally the time to take stock - not to fake stock, I hasten to add, like the deputy chairman of Nissan UK, the car importers, who has…

Following conciliatory signals from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to Hamas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office warned Wednesday night…

"I believe that most of the people who come to this festival listen to Arabic music at home. And most of them wouldn't admit it, at least until…

The Jerusalem International Oud Festival kicks off this week with an ambitious lineup of local and international musicians. Organized by…

A group of religious Zionist rabbis has said that Israeli media reprinting of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad oversteps the bounds of…

In April 2000, Hafez Assad provided an object lesson in how he had kept an iron grip on Syria for almost three decades: Mahmoud Zoubi, who had been…