When Israeli rock musician and singer Dudu Tassa said he wanted to rework and re-popularise his grandfather's repertoire of Iraqi Arabic songs from the 1930s, everyone thought he was crazy. But with ...
A charity single made by legendary music producer Quincy Jones featuring some of the Arab world’s top recording artists has become an internet hit. The official video for “Tomorrow/Bokra,” (Bokra is ...
Fans dressed smartly in elegant evening wear form an orderly queue around the block of west London's Eventim Apollo, some enthusiastically waving Iraqi flags, the cold January air doing little to ...
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Yassin Alsalman, also known as Narcy, is an Iraqi musician trying to create a space for voices of the Arab community. Over the years, he has become an unofficial spokesperson for the new generation of ...
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 ...
Lauren Vélez and Tony Plana in "The Happiest Song Plays Last." Joan Marcus “The Happiest Song Plays Last” is the kind of show in which people who look otherwise reasonable make big head-scratching ...
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The Umm Kulthum song that became a 'national anthem' for many Arab countries
On October 29, 1956, Israel – with support from the UK and France – invaded Egypt with the objective of reopening the Straits ...
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The United States has sent its most potent weapon to Iraq to battle Islamic State. She’s a 5-foot-6-inch, 60-year-old grandmother. When I served as a military advisor to Iraqi security forces in 2011, ...
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