Antonine University Publishing House is pleased to announce the release of the CD on 4000 years of music in the Levant. Pr. Nidaa Abou Mrad, playing the kemanseh and violin, designed and directed the CD’s production, which included songs performed by the Arab classical music group of Antonine University - with Mohammad Ayach on vocals and oud; Hayaf Yassine, lyre and santur; Ghassan Sahhab, qanun; and Rafka Rizk on the vocals. The CD was produced within the framework of the Research Center on Early Music - Faculty of Music and Musicology of UA - with the support of BEMO Bank. It consists of a historical tour of the main musical traditions of the Middle East, which begins with the first noted musical piece in the history of humanity, a song of Ugarit from the second millennium BC, and includes ecclesiastical and Sufi musical sequences from the Abbasid and Nahda periods. Beyond the differences of religions and verbal languages, this compilation underlines the unity of these traditions around the musical language four millennia of the Levant.