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 ...

Algerian singer Warda, whose sultry voice and range helped make her one of the giants of Arab song, died Thursday, May 17, in Cairo from a heart attack. She was 71. Along with Lebanon’s Fayrouz and ...

Standing before a rapt crowd, Ahmed Adel oozes charm with his passionate performance of an Egyptian classic, evoking a romantic nostalgia for Arabic songs of the past. Egyptian classical Arabic music ...

Fathiya Ahmed (1898-1975) was one of three daughters of a Qur’an reciter, Sheikh Ahmed El-Hamzawi. Each of her two sisters, Ratiba and Mufida, had a singing career. She was born in the Kharanfash ...

The 25-year-old has become a streaming star without releasing a full album. He just wrapped his first shows in the United States, and hopes to take his music even further. By Danny Hajjar Reporting ...

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 ...

The poetry of Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi has been delivered by lead singers ever since the end of the 1950s. It contributed to recording Egypt’s national battles and shaping its collective consciousness ...

On October 29, 1956, Israel – with support from the UK and France – invaded Egypt with the objective of reopening the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba. The invasion lasted nine days and resulted ...

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 ...