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 ...

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. "Ya leil" ("O night"), he sings, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since December, musicians have been responding to — and provoking — the protests in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, and much of the music being made about these movements is hip-hop. Some of these ...

Thus sang the late iconic Sheikh Imam to lyrics molded into life by Egypt’s poet of the people Ahmed Fouad Negm in Ya Falastiniyyeh (O Palestinians, 1968), in which the duet celebrated the Palestinian ...

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 ...