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The Israeli singer and the Radiohead guitarist team up with artists from across the Middle East to tackle a range of Arabic love songs, in an act of concerted musical bridge-building. Save this story ...

For the first time in the nine-year history of Al Ain Classics there are two artistic directors, one in charge of the 'western' classical music and one responsible for the Arabic concerts. Arabic ...

Omar Souleyman was a prolific wedding singer with more than 500 live albums to his name before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. As his country became increasingly unstable, Souleyman fled to ...