In a region where cultural infrastructure is rapidly expanding, this biennial is a discursive platform that actively engages the public rather than simply addressing it.

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the ...

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power ...

Bahraini rapper Flipperachi's 2024 track FA9LA found unexpected global success after featuring in Dhurandhar, earning him a ...

One of the great problems with modern music criticism is that it hasn’t got past the models of the second half of the last ...

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Could Khaliji pop be the next regional scene to break out globally? If Eastern Arabian music is to have its moment, Sony Music wants to be involved. We wrote about its 2022 partnership with Kuwaiti ...

Sony Music Middle East has forged a strategic partnership with Saudi-based entertainment company LuxuryKSA to develop and promote homegrown Saudi Arabian music talent. “The move deepens Sony Music’s ...

The pop star sold his music catalog in December 2022 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in ...

No Arabian Nights theme was used to sell tickets here. Just over a thousand people-many of them part of Miami’s Arab and Middle Eastern diaspora, but just as many from outside it-gathered beneath ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 20: Taylor Swift accepts the Favorite Pop Album award for 'Red (Taylor’s Version)' onstage during the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, ...