Get ready for two of Oxford Maqam’s sell-out shows in one evening: ‘Tarab and Tango’ and ‘Cairo Nights’, 7pm 1st June at the Greenwood Theatre, London. Get drawn in by […]
Sophie Frankford, alongside Dalia Ibrahim and Dr. Kawkab Tawfik, organised a 1-day symposium, ‘Listening in: Music and Power in Egypt’. Sophie also presented her research, with a paper on “Sheikh […]
On 4 and 5 October 2024, team members Martin Stokes, Rim Irscheid, Sophie Frankford and PhD student Merel Dubois Van Slageren participated in the panel ‘Of What is Music Capable […]
‘Beyond 1932’ team attended the performance of the five-member Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble. It was a suite of classical Iranian music composed and arranged by Saeid Kordmafi, based on his extensive […]
Farid took part to the closing event of the Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition, accessible from 27 July to 1 November 2024 at Southbank Centre. It explores archival practice as a […]
Sophie Frankford and Yara Salahiddeen recently participated in a panel at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) entitled Melodious Resistance: Music, Politics and Pedagogy. Sophie […]
Rim and Farid as members of Counterpoints network participated to the ‘Annual Get Together’ in 4 December 2024, co-hosted with Unbound Philanthropy. The event gathered artists, cultural networks, and organisations working […]
The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. […]
Olivia Melkonian and Dr Rim Irscheid hosted a sound archiving and memory workshop on Sunday, 2nd February 2025 at the REACH space entitled “Archival Skills Training: Preserving Sound and Memory […]
Come and share with us a unique evening with the electro-tarab vibes of Rust (Petra and Hany) of Levantine origin and living in the Czech Republic. Rust is a Prague-based […]
Join us for a special afternoon bringing together artists from Egypt (Sara Hamdy and Shadwa Ali), London-based creatives, researchers, and those interested in contemporary Egyptian music, sound art, and archives. […]
Join us for a multidisciplinary live performance that brings to life Sara Hamdy’s groundbreaking research into the history of electronic music and experimental sound in Egypt.