"Action for Hope launches a guidebook directed at music teachers and cultural workers who are active within marginalized communities that have little access to cultural services. The guidebook is the first of its kind in the Arab region and includes proposed music education methodologies for those who cannot join academic music education programs. The book is based on the experience of Action for Hope Music Schools in Lebanon and Jordan since 2015. It is written by some of the teachers in these schools, and details in its 100 pages their philosophy and methodology of education, in addition to the curriculum of music theory, music history, notation and solfege, and Syrian folk music."

"Action for Hope began its work in the city of Mosul and Nineveh Governorate in 2018, months after the city was liberated from ISIS. As such, it launched the program Listening to Iraq, sponsored by UNESCO and funded by the European Syndicate, to document, teach, and revive traditional and popular music in the Nineveh Governorate. This program is ongoing and still being developed, and through it, we hope to contribute to enriching cultural life in Mosul –and give young people the opportunity to learn traditional and folk music. Over the past three years, we have taken note of some of the similarities and differences between our work in Iraq and our previous work teaching and reviving traditional Syrian music through the Action for Hope music schools in Lebanon and Jordan." Arabic language report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17iRVrvZVBI5_T1x7a2iAdY_kefqWhFqG/view

" For nearly a decade, Syrians have been subjected to the biggest forced displacement of modern times, with nearly 9 million people leaving Syria. Wherever Syrians settle, they take with them part of their music, and leave behind other parts of it. We hope that the Syria music map will be a source of enjoyment and reassurance for millions of Syrians outside and inside Syria, and a resource for all Syrian and oriental music lovers more generally." "We are starting this project with about 100 songs and music pieces, and we hope that the project will eventually include hundreds, perhaps thousands more."