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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrated Lebanese musician and oud master Marcel Khalife is scheduled to deliver a concert on 13 September at the Amman Citadel in Jordan as part of the 2016 Jordan Festival. This summer has thus ...

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 ...

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 ...

I first heard the music of Marcel Khalife, the Lebanese-born oud virtuoso, when a guest host on Morning Becomes Eclectic brought in a bunch of Arab LP’s, including a beguiling song for oud and voice.

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 ...

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 ...