In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs ...

In 1976, while confined to the village of Amchit during his country's civil war, the Lebanese composer Marcel Khalifé first read the work of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Khalifé says the effect ...

Al Mayadine: Of All the Beautiful Mothers. The song is about the Israeli aerial bombardment of Southern Lebanon in 1982, in reprisal to Hezbollah’s shelling of northern Israel. I can remember seeing ...

There may not be any words to be found on Marcel Khalifé's latest virtuoso celebration of the oud (the Arabic lute pictured on the cover), but Caress (Muda'aba) does an elegant job in using the ...

Before discussing the extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting music on Taqasim, a last minute, odds-on favourite for the best of 2006 lists, a little background on the oud, taqasim and oud player ...

Friday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown profiles Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs about love and strife. Khalife is a folk singer, a classical composer and ...

For over four decades, Khalife has made music amid political turmoil and social upheaval. His latest album, Andalusia Of Love, is brooding and... Lebanese Composer Marcel Khalife's Urgent Reminder ...

A spectacular show of music and poetry with the legendary Lebanese musician Marcel Khalife and the Al-Mayadine Ensemble was enjoyed by hundreds of people and many UN staff in Vienna as part of an ...

Lebanese musician Marcel Khalifé has landed in jail for some of his performances. Known for interpreting the nationalistic and sometimes controversial poetry of the late Mahmoud Darwish, Khalifé ...