Artists & Music
Hear the first recorded voices
Singers, composers and instrumentalists of the Nahda and the first decades of recording, and their music.
Meet them generation by generationPlay this generation, one voice after another
Research & documents
Read the studies behind the records
Studies, portraits of the first scholars and documents from the archive, in Arabic, English and French.
Choose what to read
The AMAR podcast · 2013–2022
Rawdat al-Balabelروضة البلابل
Rare records from the archive, listened to closely and explained: the maqām, the rhythm, the performers and the history of the Nahḍa.
The last episode
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Min al-Tārīkh
221 · Zakariyya Ahmed - 12زكريّا أحمد - 12
9 Jan 2022 · 35 minPart 12 of 12
Every episode as a line: its height is its length, its colour its programme. Choose one to open it.
Voices of the podcast
Events · since 2009
From Qornet el Hamra to Marseille
Twelve events in six countries, from the founding conference of 2009 to the first Biennale and the listening sessions.
Where and when · choose a city or a year
The archive, box by box
Publications
CD box sets of the recordings AMAR restores from its archive, each with its booklet, new music by the Asil Ensemble, and a book.
As they stand on a shelf, in the order they came out
Great artists of the Nahda · 2026
صالح عبد الحي
Ṣāliḥ ‘Abd al-Ḥayy
Last of the Nahḍa Singers (1896–1962)
In the box: A 64-page booklet in English and Arabic, a leporello, and a QR code to download the recordings
Listen · an excerpt: Ashkī li-mīn zoll el-hawā · With Sāmī al-Shawwā, Muḥammad ‘Umar, Dāwūd Ḥusnī · late 1922–early 1923 · Baidaphon
About AMAR · since 2009
Arab Music Archiving & Research
A Lebanese foundation in Qornet el Hamra, Metn, Lebanon, that keeps, studies and shares the recorded music of the Nahda.
Visit or write
What the press followed · 82
Events · 31 The concerts, conferences, exhibitions and Biennale AMAR organised.
On the About page
Events
The 2020 Marseille exhibition online: sixty 78 rpm recordings and twelve films.
L’Orient sonore: the exhibition online
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