Join your fellow music-lovers to read and discuss The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir by Aeham Ahmad — an astonishing account of a pianist’s escape from war-torn Syria. This hybrid in-person and virtual ...

He became famous as the pianist who played in the rubble of war-torn Syria, but Aeham Ahmad is much more than that. He's now a popular musician and has established a home in Wiesbaden with his family.

Syrian-Palestinian pianist Aeham Ahmad became known after videos of him playing piano on the bombed out streets of his neighbourhood of Yarmouk near Damascus were posted on Youtube in 2013. Now a ...

Aeham Ahmad sits at the piano, eyes closed and hands hovering over the keyboard. His voice is filled with pain as he starts to sing the mournful Arabic lyrics to his favorite song, about life in ...

For four years, Aeham Ahmad played a soundtrack to a devastating war. In the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Syrian capital Damascus, he wheeled out his piano to perform in ...

CEBU, Philippines — In many ways, Aeham Ahmad is an ordinary man. The son of Palestinian refugees, he grew up in Yarmouk, home to 160,000 other Palestinians in Damascus. His father, a musician blind ...

He placed a piano in the middle of the ruins of Damascus and played music. Now Aeham Ahmad is living in a refugee center in Munich - and is a rising star embodying the courage of all the Syrians ...