He is "the most fascinating director to emerge from Egypt's ever-fertile film culture in the last quarter century," says IFFR ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Hamo Bika rose up from the slums of this northern coastal city to become one of Egypt's most popular musicians. He has amassed millions of followers on YouTube and SoundCloud. He ...

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 ...

Rock star Lenny Kravitz received worldwide attention last month when he released an anti-war song called "We Want Peace," but lost in the reporting of the story was a vital fact: Kravitz recorded his ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the Arab world’s most popular performers, the 35-year-old Egyptian singer Amir Diab, entered the Sheraton Ballroom like a prize-fighter over the weekend to the squeals of hundreds of women.

The ancient-looking PA system was not meant to handle the immensity of sound produced by famed Nile Delta folk music ensemble El Tanbura as they warmed up for a show on the streets of Ismailia on a ...

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 ...