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Launched in 2009, the Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research<\/a> (AMAR) is a private Lebanese organization working towards the preservation of recorded and printed Arab musical tradition of the Nahda <\/em>(approx. 1903-1935). AMAR also aims at supporting on-going scholarly research in musicology, and promoting traditional Arab music. To do so, AMAR actively collects, catalogues, and digitizes printed scores and audio records, organizes public lectures, scientific conferences, and musical concerts, and ensures its unique collection is accessible to worldwide researchers and the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research is supported by numerous artists and music professionals. International renowned musicologists such as Jean Lambert<\/a>, Nidaa Abou Mrad<\/a>, Virginia Danielson<\/a>, or Michael Frishkopf<\/a> are members of the Consulting & Planning Board<\/a>. And the foundation is managed by a Leading Team<\/a> including numerous music specialists and professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, AMAR has one of the largest known record collections of Egyptian\/Syro-Lebanese Arab music from 1903 through to the 1930s. AMAR also has some partial collections of Lebanese studio recordings that date back to the 1950s<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>‘About<\/a>‘ page<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The geographical focus of the foundation’s work spans from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, the Arab Gulf to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and includes minority groups existing in these countries such as the Syriac, Kurdish, and Coptic communities as well as Sufi orders. If initially, AMAR’s dissemination work relied primarily on CDs and booklets, with the rise of the Internet, efforts were redirected towards the creation of “a website that will deliver Arab music at the highest quality that available technology allows.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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