Artists at Work (THE OFFICE performing arts + film) x Arab American National Museum | Dearborn, 2025-present
Blue Moon Radio | Detroit, 2025-2026
Residencies
Strange Beautiful Music Festival with New Music Detroit as Taqsim | Cadieux Stage, Detroit
Third Place [MusicFest] as Taqsim | Cahoots, Ann Arbor
Salute to Detroit with Wayne State University | Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit
Sound & Spoken with musicians Joy Moughanni and Marwan Tohme and poets Kamelya Youssef, Rabab Chamseddine, Celine Aljamil, Samia Naccash, and Jana Haj Ali | Internazionale, Beirut
A.R.A.B — A Real Arab Blueprint as Fusha/فسحة | Spot Lite, Detroit
Technically, Yeah. as Taqsim | UFO, Detroit
Over the Pavement II: Chamber Music Festival | Trinosophes, Detroit
Sound & Spoken — Echo Location as Taqsim with Dominant Hand and poets Tariq Luthun, Kamelya Youssef, Hajjar Baban, and Jamaal May | Moondog Cafe, Detroit
Silent Movie Soundtracks — Early Film Re-scored Live by Detroit Composers as Taqsim. Rescored “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943) by Maya Deren and “Is It Always Right to Be Right?” (1970) by Lee Mishkin | Moondog, Detroit
Sound & Silence — Experiments in Contemplative Music and Contemplative Silence as Taqsim | Canterbury House, Ann Arbor
Selected Concerts
David D. Henry Award from Wayne State University, 2025
Arab American Cultural Heritage Research Award from Wayne State University Department of Anthropology, 2025
Graduate Professional Scholarship from Wayne State University Graduate School, 2025
Zudick Chorister of the Year from Henry Ford College, 2022
Awards & Grants
Arab-American Musicians in Detroit: Tradition, Identity, and the Impact of Middle Eastern Conflict | Presented at the Wayne State University Graduate Research Symposium (2025)
Two Traditions, One Voice: The Transcultural Work of Haitham Haidar’s Zaytoun | Presented at the Wayne State University Graduate Research Symposium (2026)
Habibi, Let’s Teach! Welcoming Arabic Culture and Music in Classrooms | Presented at the Michigan Music Conference (2026)
Publications on Arab America
Publications and Research
Master of Music, Wayne State University
Bachelor of Arts in Music, Wayne State University
Associates of Arts in Music, Henry Ford College