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The 28th Annual Arabic Music Retreat will be held August 10-17, 2024 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in the USA. Registration will open up in early 2024 and will be posted on our website. We look forward Read More …

Our August 18, 2023 concert will be broadcast live on zoom and youtube. Below are the links for the event. The concert takes place at 7:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on Friday August 18, 2023. Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81609829632?pwd=VVdCWjB1Sk5CeDhMaWJ2U05hbjFEdz09 Updated Youtube Read More …

The Arabic Music Retreat is back with an in-person Retreat this August for the first time since 2019, after three years of meeting on Zoom. We are delighted to be presenting a public concert on August 18, 2023 at 7:30 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 …

Thanks to all the participants who attended the 2022 Arabic Music Retreat on Zoom. The faculty and participants all worked hard to make the event a special learning and musical experience, creating new community bonds even though we were on Read More …