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 ...

Encompassing dozens of countries inhabited by close to 500 million people, the Arab world is enormously diverse, and its music reflects that. Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st ...

While I was playing piano in public, this girl asked me to play an Arabic song — and I gave it a try. Her reaction made the ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — Arab musicians in Berlin are bringing their musical roots to Germans — with a little help from American jazz. At the monthly Arab Song Jam in the German capital, musicians use famous ...

Diva: From Umm Kulthum to Dalida, showing at Beirut’s Sursock Museum, celebrates legendary singers, actresses and dancers ...

In an underground reservoir built 1,233 years ago in a city that saw sectarian riots last year, visitors hear a beguiling musical composition that combines Arab love songs with Hebrew poetry. By ...

The chorus goes like this: "Freedom, freedom, and we are a free people". The song did not travel beyond Yemen's borders, but it stood out among a flurry of revolutionary anthems that flooded the ...

American Jennifer Grout fell just short of the top prize in the “Arabs Got Talent” competition after a remarkable run to the finals by a 23-year-old from Massachusetts who barely speaks Arabic. Grout ...

BERLIN (AP) - Arab musicians in Berlin are bringing their musical roots to Germans - with a little help from American jazz. At the monthly Arab Song Jam in the German capital, musicians use famous ...