These poignant words celebrating youth and love are an example of sawt, an urban art music form from the Arabian Gulf. Not many people know that Kuwait is the birthplace of sawt, the ‘Blues of the ...

In Sawt form, Safyy el-Din documents only the basit[4] part. This part seemed to have been considered a beginning and a reference between other parts of Sawt. This composition is an imagination of how ...

14 April 2005The radio station will transmit on the 101.5 FM megahertz frequency Amman - Arabic music fans can tune in to the latest songs by their favourite artists when the Jordanian affiliate of ...

A wonderful connection between old classical modal music and contemporary modal classical music. Mustafa Said travels back and wanders between al-Ma'arri, Safety el-Din al-Urmawi and al-Mutanabi to ...