music

Ahmed Basiony, a Cairo-born artist, experimental musician and teacher in his early thirties, was killed while participating in the first…

Best known by the moniker the Narcicyst, artist Yassin Alsalman demonstrates the possibilities of non-violent resistance through hip-hop. The Iraqi-Canadian…

In terms of non-violent protest, few things can be as emotionally engaging as music, a fact clearly reflected in the…

In the crammed cube that is El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music’s Tanboura Hall, audience and performers were forced…

 

Halfway through their rollicking Monday night performance at the Cairo Jazz Club, two things became immediately obvious about Kaza Mada.…

Nihad Hadad, known to the Arab world as Fairouz, is considered by many to be the most important singer alive…

In our fitness article last week, we discussed using music as a motivation to push one’s self to work out.…

In Egypt, Ramadan is more than a holy month of fasting; it is a month for stories and elaborate festivities.…

Reem Talhami, the Palestinian singer best known for her independent album "Ashiqa" (A lover), released in the early 2000s, owned…