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Voices echo one another, instruments engage in a dialogue, and in this suspended moment, each listener, for the duration of a song, grows a little closer to the others.<\/strong> <strong>Our journalist Juliana Cortes spoke with Maryem Tollar for PANM360 just a few days before the highly anticipated concert.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FMA 2026 | Al Qahwa : le caf\u00e9 des cultures, le rythme des rencontres\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2SdW4T2_k0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n    <div class=\"panm-ads-wrapper alignfull\"><span class=\"panm-ads-copy\">Publicit\u00e9 panam<\/span><div class=\"panm-ads-render\" data-ads-id=\"166712\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accompanied by the riqq and the qanun, Maryem Tollar showcases a vocal artistry shaped by years of training under the great masters of classical Arabic song, ranging from Syrian muwashahat to devotional Sufi melodies. 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