“I’m quite a coward,” Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. “I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career.” It’s a surprisingly candid confession from ...

Virginia Tech hosted “Sounds of Desire” on Saturday, a one-woman show accompanied with traditional Iraqi music. The performance, which started touring in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003, depicts the lives ...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - The notes of musical scales resonate from the children's sometimes-squeaky clarinets, challenging the roar of low-flying choppers outside. Pianos keep time for ballerinas who practice ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, June 11 (UNHCR) - A trio of refugee musicians from Iraq have released their first album on some of the world's leading music-sharing sites and have agreed to use the profits to help ...

The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Dean’s Advisory Committee on International Initiatives, and the ...

They joined with al-Lateef, 27, and played their first concert two months later before about 300 fans in a small Baghdad club. The city has a tiny heavy metal subculture that listened to cassettes by ...