SRINAGAR, India, March 16, (AP): Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the ...

From left to right, Transcendence performers Anwar Khan, Walid Ben Selim, Sahar Mohammadi, and Zainab Afailal (all images courtesy the artists) Through dance, recitation, poetry, and prayer, Sufis ...

It’s March 24, the final Monday night of Ramadan, and Barzakh Cafe — a cozy venue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn — is packed for a qawwali, the Sufi devotional music tradition that originated in ...

When the cowboy-hatted and denim-fitted hordes hit Coachella next month, they will witness an important milestone: Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna is poised to become the first artist to sing her ...

Bollywood has always been a melting pot of cultures, especially when it comes to music. Over the decades, Hindi cinema has borrowed, blended and beautifully reimagined sounds from around the world.

'From Ocean to Gulf: Heritage Music of the Arab World' is a series by Ahram Online, in partnership with the AMAR Foundation (Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research). In this article, we ...