Syriana has been played on NTS shows including Full House, with Syriana first played on 10 May 2015.

The Road to Damascus begins in London, when guitarist/ producer Nick "Dubulah" Page (Dub Colossus, Trans Global Underground and Temple of Sound) and Syrian virtuoso Qanun player, Abdullah Chhadeh, begin work on a collaborative project discussed some years earlier. Nick and Abdullah were soon augmented by Irish double bass player, composer and musical director Bernard O'Neill, who had worked with Abdullah prior to Syriana.

Syriana would go on to draw further similarly minded musicians from London's multicultural melting pot: multi-talented Egyptian percussionist, Sherif Ibrahim, the mighty Syrian accordionist,…