folk music

Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the…

“Our folkloric instruments are dying,” says 61-year old, Egyptian musician Salama Metwally as he tunes his favorite rababa. He is…

Rare photographs of Bob Dylan, shot over a year-long period in the mid-1960s, go on show in Paris next week…

Oh homeland we left you, and my tears fled away and died / Homeland you were our hope, and one…

Ever since Egyptians took to the streets on 25 January to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime, people have tried to…

With the aim to revive storytelling culture in Egypt, Abeer Soliman entertained her audience with her reinterpretation of Naguib Mahfouz’s…