National Arab Orchestra founder Michael Ibrahim joined the program to share his musical origins and why he believes music can ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates MTV is hoping hip-hop and reality television tailored and sanitized for a more conservative Middle East will draw young Arabs away from dozens of locally produced music ...

Fathiya Ahmed (1898-1975) was one of three daughters of a Qur’an reciter, Sheikh Ahmed El-Hamzawi. Each of her two sisters, ...

Bollywood has always been a melting pot of cultures, especially when it comes to music. Over the decades, Hindi cinema has ...

Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

The University of Minnesota’s Arab Band showcases the unique complexity of Arabic music and is looking to continue performing at events on and off campus. The Arab Band implements Arabic music by ...

The new venture will be led by former TikTok MENA executive Rami Zedian. By Chris Eggertsen Sony Music Middle East and top Arab music streamer Anghami have teamed up to launch Vibe Music Arabia, a new ...

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 ...

Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist ...

Lamees Audeh and her husband, Wafa Al Zaghal, have ambitious plans for the Arabic music scene in the GTA. “We want to become the go-to place for Arabic music, maybe in Canada – and hopefully in all of ...