Once the epicentre of music in the Arabic-speaking world, Egypt finds it increasingly hard to meet the financial needs of its local musicians, who are looking to the Gulf states for more lucrative ...

Egyptian maestro and composer Hany Farahat performed a massive concert at the Sydney Opera House, one of the world’s most prominent musical venues. Farahat conducted the Australian Metropolitan ...

Egypt will host the 29 th edition of the annual Arab Music Festival from 1-10 November, with the event to take place under the supervision of Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem. The 10-day festival ...

The region around the Nile is one of the oldest continually-inhabited areas in the world. Ancient Egyptian musicians are known to have played harps and flutes circa 4000 BC, and double clarinets and ...

The 33rd edition of the Arab Music Festival and Conference, running from 16 to 25 October, will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and traditional Arab music. More than ever, ...

The 28th Arab Music Festival is wrapping-up a rich programme on Tuesday with concerts by famous singers in both Cairo and Alexandria. Assala will be the main performance at the closing ceremony at ...

It was a beautiful night for Mashrou’ Leila. Over 35,000 concertgoers showed up to see the Lebanese band and two other Arab rock groups perform at the daylong Music Park Festival in an upscale suburb ...

Was Abdel Halim Hafez, Egypt’s most celebrated classical singer, actually a rockstar?With his crisp black suits and neatly ...

The first few seconds of Marwan Moussa’s song “3AMEL EH” open with an interaction between the rapper and a voice that seemingly belongs to his therapist. The therapist can be heard asking the ...

This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on December 26, 2023. Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: Danny Hajjar is a Lebanese American music journalist and curator of the weekly ...

A burgeoning music scene and the political revolutions of 2011 in the Arab world created the perfect opening for better music writing. In the online space, the entire genre of music was largely ...

MARTINEZ — Wednesday evenings are music nights at the Martinez home of Yosifah Rose and Nathan Craver. It’s a time when their longhair black cat, Sophia, situates herself in the middle of the living ...