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 ...

The Lebanese classical musician and composer Marcel Khalife is often compared to Bob Dylan — not for his music, but for his politics. The Middle Eastern musical and political icon sings about freedom ...

Speaking of vocal colour, your performance of Darwish’s “I Am Joseph, O Father” has a beautiful, liturgical quality, while ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lebanese musician Marcel Khalife is known throughout the world as an artistic revolutionary and cultural icon... though not in the United States. Khalife, master of the oud, an Arabic lute, hopes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This album was recorded with jazz bassist Peter Herbert and Khalife's two sons, pianist Rami and percussionist Bachar. (On one number, violinist Omar Guey is also featured.) While all nine of the ...