A banner held up in the hall read, “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad.” One of Maasarani's best known songs is “Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal,” which he first sang in 2012 ...

A banner held up in the hall read, “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad.” One of Maasarani’s best known songs is “Jabeenak ’Ali w Ma Bintal,” which he first sang in 2012 ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

The concert organized by the Molham Volunteering Team, a humanitarian organization founded by Syrian students, also marked a month since a lightning insurgency toppled former President Bashar Assad.

A banner held up in the hall read “It is Syria the Great, not Syria the Assad”. Young people wave flags at the concert (Ghaith Alsayed/AP) One of Maasarani’s best known songs is Jabeenak ...