As concert venues go, it's not exactly Carnegie Hall. A few dozen folding chairs are set up in a courtyard, in front of a modest elevated stage. A half-dozen musicians are crowded around a table, ...

I’ve been loving every note of a wonderful new jazz/Algerian chaâbi fusion album called Koum Tara: Chaâbi, Jazz and Strings. I featured a track from it on last week’s show,… The music of Koum Tara: ...

PARIS — The musicians of the Casbah of old Algiers were bent and broken by history. The bars and cafes that flourished under French colonial rule were their livelihood, so the war that brought ...

Stephen Graham of 'Adolescence' says research took its co-writer down 'a lot of dark holes' ...

Moroccan violinist Youness El Khazan reimagines classical masterpieces through Moroccan genres, blending Mozart or Beethoven with Aita, Chaabi, or reggada to show that music is a universal language.

In a concert hall down by the old port in Marseilles, a rabbi wearing a suit, Phillipe Darmon, walks on stage and launches into an unaccompanied song. Beside him stands another man; they trade verses ...

A few weeks ago I was having lunch with Andy Votel of Finders Keepers, Jane Weaver of Bird Records and their kids. I told him that I really wanted to go to Cairo and he kindly gave me a brief ...

Moroccan billionaire Miloud Chaabi has reportedly resigned from the Kingdom’s House of Representatives. According to a report by Morocco World News, Chaabi, an 85 year-old businessman with a fortune ...