At a time of political rhetoric over Islam in America, a multi-cultural group of European musicians has been touring the U.S. playing sacred Islamic songs. The tour ends Thursday in Stockton with a ...

A number of Muslim Americans are using art as a point of connection, not discord, between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States. Omar Chakaki, left, whose performance alias is Omar Offendum, ...

Flames burst from the stage for a grand entrance, and fake fog swirls around a young man in a white robe. He clutches the microphone, gazes seriously into the camera and then, accompanied only by ...

Faith is what brought the two artists together and faith is what continues to inspire and motivate the duo on their musical journey. Fajjr Khan and Ali Andre Ali believe some things are "just meant to ...

After an Indian buffet, warm chai and a vent about the difficulty of finding space for jamming sessions, 18 Jewish and Muslim musicians in Kensington opened up their instrument cases. The musicians ...

PALOS HILLS, Ill. (RNS) – A musical play explores the shared history of Islam, Africa and blues music through the eyes of an enslaved storyteller-musician. PALOS HILLS, Ill. (RNS) – The history of ...

Hisham Aidi, a lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, sat down with chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown during a recent stop at the Tropicalia music lounge in ...

(JTA) — For most musicians working in the under-appreciated genre of world music, recording an album with Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist of the famed English rock band Radiohead, would be something of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Ahmed Elkatib/MiC “What is your favorite song?” is a question I have begun to despise. I can ...

The terrorist attacks last year in Paris and the mass shootings in San Bernadino, Calif. led to an immediate rise in anti-Muslin threats and hate crimes. Muslims have also been singled out in the ...