Video of Ottawa-area children’s choir singing traditional Arabic song goes viral

A children’s choir made up of more than 200 Ottawa-area schoolchildren sing a traditional Arabic song at a December 2015 concert. A video of the performance posted to YouTube earlier this week has been viewed more than 1,000,000 times. (YouTube)

People from around the world are singing the praises of an Ottawa-area children’s choir after their performance of a traditional Arabic song exploded on YouTube this weekend.

In the video, posted earlier this week, about 200 schoolchildren perform a choral version of Tala’ al-Badru ‘Alayna, a song that was purportedly sung to the Prophet Muhammad upon his arrival in Medina after he left Mecca.

As of Sunday evening, the video had been viewed more than 1.000,000 times.

“I am an Arab [and] this video made me cry. I haven’t cried like that in really long,” wrote one commenter.

Another commenter called the decision to sing a traditional Arabic song “genuinely amazing” while a third said the video showed “there [is] still hope in this world.”

People also reacted emotionally to the performance on Twitter.

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