A recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship in 2002 and a Michigan Heritage Award in 1994, Nadeem Dlaikan is internationally renowned as a player and maker of the nye, a reed flute common throughout the Middle East. Born in Lebanon and now living in the Detroit area, Dlaikan is one of the most important and widely respected Arab-American musicians in the world. He tours internationally, both solo and with a small ensemble, performing traditional Arab music on the nye, mijwiz and munjarah flutes and the oboe-like mizmar. One of Dlaikan’s most important gifts is his ability to work with and move comfortably among the many different nationalities that make up the Arab community in Detroit, the largest in the U.S. Dlaikan’s non-performing activities include promoting concerts by touring Arab musicians, teaching and educational outreach work conducted on a national basis and broad-based cultural advocacy on behalf of the Arab-American community.

  

This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, with additional contributions from Ohio, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation.