Events
🔴 Conference papers (juried)
🔵 Conference papers (invited)
🉑 Workshops
🎵 Concerts
2019
🔴 Music and Sound at the Mediterranean Crossroads Symposium
Paul Bowles: “Capturing” the Musics of Morocco at the Threshold of Independence
November 14-17
New Orleans, LA
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
Marketing the "Music of Morocco": The Evolution of the Bowles Project
November 7-10
Bloomington, IN
🔴 Music and Sound at the Mediterranean Crossroads Symposium
‘The Ties that Bind’: Trans-Mediterranean Coloniality in the Musical Institutions of Post-Independence Morocco
January 7-10
IFAO- Cairo, Egypt
2018
🔴 Middle-Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting
“Out of Africa?” Toward Determining a Geo-Cultural Context for the Study of Moroccan Musics
November 15-18
San Antonio, TX
🔴 African Music Scholarship in the 21st Century: Challenges & Directions Symposium
The Crucible of Colonialism: The Connection Between Cultural Hegemony and Francophone Musical Scholarship in Morocco
August 9-12
University of Ghana - Accra, Ghana
🔴 Music and Sound at the Mediterranean Crossroads Symposium
‘The Ties that Bind’: Trans-Mediterranean Coloniality in the Musical Institutions of Post-Independence Morocco
June 18-23
Dar Souiri - Essaouira, Morocco
🔴 Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial Spanish legacies in Morocco & Equatorial Guinea
Crossing the Strait: Coloniality in the Musical Culture of Post-Independence Spanish Morocco
March 14-15
Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC - Barcelona, Spain
2017
🔴 Middle-Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting
A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
November 18-21
Washington, D.C.
⚫ “Colonial Morocco Revisited” International Workshop
‘The Powers That Be’: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
July 12-13
Center Jacques Berque - Rabat, Morocco
🔴 “Evolutions or revolutions? Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African Music” Conference
‘The Powers That Be’: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
June 13-14
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales - Paris, France
🔴 "Interweaving Cultures: Theory and Practice"
Enduring Echoes of al-Andalus: Cultural Policy and the Status of Indigenous Musics in Protectorate and Post-Independence Morocco
March 8-10
University of Malta - Valleta, Malta
🔴 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars' Conference
Enduring Echoes of al-Andalus: Cultural Policy and the Status of Indigenous Musics in Protectorate and Post-Independence Morocco
April 7-8
University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology - Niagara chapter
A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics"
March 24-25
Kent State University - Warren, OH
🔴 “Music: Order and Disorder” Columbia University Music Scholarship Conference
A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics
March 4
Columbia University - New York
2016
🔴 “Routes of Difference: Migration in Artistic, Academic and Media Discourses” Conference
East-West Hybridity in the Work of Arab-American Composers in the U.S.
November 24-25
Catholic University of Portugal - Lisboa, Portugal
🉑 Recital with Hanna Khoury
Kehilath Anshe Maarav Congregation
November 18
Chicago, IL
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
Enduring Echoes of al-Andalus: Cultural Policy and the Status of Indigenous Musics in Protectorate and Post-Independence Morocco
November 10-13
Washington, D.C.
🔵 Cultivating Arab Culture Pedagogies for Educators
Navigating between the Secular and the Religious: Case study of Andalusian music in the City of Titwan and al-Zawiya al H'arraqiyya
July 29
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
🔴 Musicians in the Mediterranean: Narratives of Movement
‘The Road Less Travelled’: The Moroccan Malḥūn and the Migration of the Andalusian Muwashshaḥ
June 21-26
Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella - Napoli, Italy
🔵 The Legacy of Al-Andalus Symposium
‘The Road Less Travelled’: The Moroccan Malḥūn and the Migration of the Andalusian Muwashshaḥ
April 7
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2015
🔴 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference
East-West Hybridity in the Work of Arab-American Composers in the U.S.
February 11-14
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
2014
🔴 “Musical Traditions in North Africa” Symposium
Towards Setting a Course for 21st-Century Studies in Maghrebi Ethnomusicology: Three Key Questions.
December 8-10
Center of Arab and Mediterranean Music - Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
🔵 Arab Arts & Culture Course for Educators
The Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz, Lebanese Cultural Icons in the 20th Century
June 23
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference
The Sacred & the Profane: The Role of the Harrāqī & Raissūnī Sufi Orders in Preserving the Heritage of Andalusian Music in Tetuán.
November 13-16
Pittsburgh, PA
2013
🔴 Sequestering Tradition?: A Cultural Sustainability Symposium
“A Sojourn Elsewhere”: Preserving the Turath in the Arab Diaspora
April 15-18
Sterling College - Craftsbury Common, VT
2012
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology/American Musicological Society: Annual Joint meeting
Deconstructing a Medieval Legend: Guido d'Arezzo, the "Arabian Influence", and the Role of "Historical Imagination"
November 1-4
New Orleans, LA
2011
🔴 Conversations 2011: Music Scholarship in Dialogue
‘Inta ‘Omri’: A Merging of Western Influence and Eastern Tradition in Egyptian Music
February 4-5
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology - Niagara chapter
‘Inta ‘Omri’: A Precious yet Painful Collaboration; A Merging of Western Influence and Eastern Tradition in Egyptian Music
March 4-5
Eastman School of Music - Rochester, NY
🔴 Society for Ethnomusicology - MIDSEM chapter
The Absence of the Blue-Print: Informal Pedagogy and the Perpetuation of Classical Arabic Music
April 8-10
Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH
🔴 Hybridity in Music Conference
East-West Hybridity in the Work of Arab-American Composers in the U.S.
March 26
University of Miami - Miami, FL
🔴 6th International Conference on the Arts in Society
The Demise of Classical Arabic Music
May 9-11
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities - Berlin, Germany
🔴 2011 Society for Ethnomusicology/Congress on Research in Dance Annual Conference
Endgame: The Role of Arab-American Composers in the Preservation, Hybridization, and Eventual Evanescence of Traditional Arabic Music in the U.S.
November 17-20
Philadelphia, PA
2010
🉑 Arabesque Music Ensemble concert
Iowa City Englert Theatre
April 5
Iowa City, IA
🔵 Arabic Music Symposium
Arabic Music. Condition: Critical!
February 23
University of Florida - Gainesville, FL