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 ...

For many decades Egypt was at the heart of Arabic music, and a pioneer of Western classical music practices in the Arab world. Egypt’s Golden Age (1950s-1970s) was known for setting trends and ...

FirstWorks, a non-profit connecting art with audiences in Providence, Rhode Island, will present an artist residency with multi-instrumentalist and movement artist Karim Nagi serving local K-12 ...

Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese artists will perform alongside prominent artists such as Stormzy, Doechii, Tyla, and Charli XCX at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, which will take place ...

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 ...

This summer I spent a month in Egypt doing research for the public radio program Afropop Worldwide. In October, Afropop will begin airing a series of programs looking at Egypt — past and present — ...

Shahd Hesham, an oud player and teacher, plays the oud at Arabic Oud House in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ...

Celebrated Shaabi singer Ahmed Adaweyah passed away Sunday evening in Cairo at the age of 79 after a battle with illness. Adaweyah, born on 3 July 1945 in Cairo, was one of the most influential ...

Egyptian music star Amr Diab is set to return to acting after a 27-year hiatus with an Arabic original series for Netflix. The as yet untitled series is a musical drama and is currently being ...

We can hardly understand the lyrics; They are an insult to Arabic music and culture,” said Amina Mansour , a Western educated 30 year- old Egyptian freelance photographer. It is no surprise that some ...