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Santur player Sadaf Amini performs in front of singers from the Kingston Chamber Choir. (John Burge)

January 6, 2022

2 years after Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS752 was shot down in Iran, a new musical composition memorializes the victims

John Burge, Queen's University, Ontario

‘Flight 752 Elegies’ was composed for santur, percussion and choir, including a soprano singer, and can be viewed online.

A table set for the celebration of the Persian festival of Yalda. Jasmin Merdan/Moment via Getty images.

December 20, 2021

A Persian festival, Yalda, celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, with pomegranates, poetry and sacred rituals

Pardis Mahdavi, Arizona State University

People stay up all night, telling stories and eating dried fruits, in addition to watermelon and pomegranate, to celebrate the sunrise soon after the longest night of the year.

Anida Yoeu Ali’s Lava Rising, The Red Chador: Genesis I. (2019). Studio Revolt/Photo: Masahiro Sugano

September 15, 2021

Women at the height of their artistic powers present a powerful reckoning in SOUL Fury

Alison Carroll, The University of Melbourne

A new exhibition featuring works by16 women artists who share backgrounds in Islam is a tour de force.

The lyrical beauty of Arabic inspired many poets, writers. Land Rover MENA

January 11, 2017

What’s missing in the teaching of Islam

Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University

The teaching of Islam is often limited to its religious practice. How Christians, Jews and Muslims borrowed freely from each other in the realm of art, music, and literature is seldom discussed.

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