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 ...

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Late one Thursday night, the hippest cafe-bar in the village of Majdal Shams pulses with strobe lights. The dance floor is packed. Beloved hometown band Hawa Dafi — Arabic for "warm breeze" — is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The makers of an excellent album of reimagined Arabic songs have convened in an industrial estate on the ...