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Registration for the 2025 Arabic Music Retreat is now open. The event will take place from August 9-16, 2025, in-person at Mount Holoyke College. All registration information is on the website. Hope you can join us for an entire week Read More …

The 29th Annual Arabic Music Retreat will be held August 9-16, 2025 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in the USA. Registration will open up in March or April and will be posted on our website. We look Read More …

William Shaheen was the youngest of five siblings, a musician of the violin and oud, a composer, an optician, and a teacher. He was all of these things, and even then he was at his core an incredible brother, uncle Read More …

We have lost a dear member of the Retreat family, oud player and vocalist Victor Abdunnur. Deepest condolences to his wife Maha Shakhashiri and the family. Both Maha and Victor attended the Retreat many times. Their zest for life and Read More …

On January 31, 2021, we held a Celebration of Life on zoom to honor Michel Merhej (1928-2020) and Bassam Saba (1959-2020), our dear faculty members who passed away due to COVID-19. We paid tribute to the wonderful achievements and personalities Read More …