Online Arabic music school i3zif kicks off the year with 3 ambitious new goals

Just over a year after launch, the team at i3zif, the online Arabic music school, has kicked off 2014 with three ambitious new goals, says co-founder Bisher Abu Taleb, who’s currently participating in a 500 Startups boot camp in Silicon Valley.

Last Saturday, partners Abu Taleb and Ayham Abu Hammad launched a new program to teach music to students in Jordanian public schools through i3zif’s video tutorials, in partnership with Queen Rania’s Madrasati program, and sponsored by private sector donors and international funds. The program has bought and set up computer labs, instruments, and musically trained supervisors in 15 Jordanian public elementary schools in what Abu Taleb refers to as “music deserts”. “The plan,” he says, “is to create this success story in Jordan and spread it to the UAE, Qatar, [and the larger Arab world]… in the region, we all share the same problem” of a severe lack in “music schools, good instructors, and variety of instruction.”

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Online Arabic music school i3zif kicks off the year with 3 ambitious new goals