As Harari struggled with rejection, he began telephoning radio stations directly. In January 2017, he reached Margalit ...

But this hasn’t always been the case. For much of the 20th century, watching Arabic television in the United States meant ...

Founded in 2003, Cairokee band's major breakthrough came during the Egyptian revolution in 2011 when they released a hit single Sowt El-Horreya (The Voice of Freedom), followed by Ya El-Midan (Oh, the ...

Nearly a century after his untimely death, the voice of Sayed Darwish still reverberates across Egypt in the verses of the national anthem he composed, Belady, Belady (My Homeland, My Homeland, 1923), ...

MEE speaks to Asif Hasnain, co-founder of The Dream Journey music project, on how debates over Islam and culture have shaped ...

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Moscow on Saturday will host a new global song competition called Intervision, initially positioned as a response to the long ...

Egypt will mark its first Egyptian Music Day on Monday, 15 September, with more than 100 events across 80 venues in Cairo and ...

There's a lot of talk about censorship and the stifling of free speech and expression these days. This, however, is nothing new, especially when it comes to music.

Can there be borders in music? Despite the long history of strained relations between India and Pakistan, the music of one ...

Zeer Salem' is inspired by the story of the poet and knight Abu Layla Al-Muhallal, also known as Al-Zeer Salem, who waged the ...

The fifth edition of Dubai PodFest featured the launch of the Droob Areeka podcast and the unveiling of the ‘Insaat’ digital platform for podcast production. A distinguished group of content creators, ...