Fifty years ago, Lebanese singer Fairuz released a song that stirred hope and national pride. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to music journalist Danny Hajjar about its enduring significance.

BEIRUT (AP) — One of the Arab world’s most famous singers, Sabah Fakhri, who has entertained generations with traditional songs and preserved nearly extinct forms of Arabic music, has died, Syria’s ...

CAIRO (Reuters Life!) - Algerian singer and guitarist Souad Massi says that by spanning two cultures, Arab and Western, she has won some new fans on both sides of the divide. Massi, 34, plays American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They were feminist pioneers, immortalized by their music. The magic of singers like Fairuz and Umm Kulthum still makes the Arab ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaking with Saint Levant feels like encountering two personalities at once. One moment, you hear Marwan Abdelhamid (his real ...

Strategic move emphasizes Anghami’s commitment to providing exclusive and original Arabic content to users around the world. Amr Diab’s extensive collection of hits under his own label Nay and all ...

The music pours out of the speaker, a lush string section playing a unison melody rich with Middle Eastern overtones. Then, suddenly, a woman’s voice eases through the background--sensuous and throaty ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese singer Ghada Shbeir has breathed new life into a 1,000-year-old form of Arabic music which she says was close to extinction. Known as "muwashahat", her songs trace their ...

Arab cultural life has already lost several influential figures from music, television, film and literature this year ...

AMMAN, Jordan, March 10 -- It took just a few chords screeching from a battered stereo before Mahmoud Barghouti popped around the corner and shouted to the music vendor in downtown Amman: "Turn up the ...

Ahmad Kaabour, the celebrated Lebanese singer and composer best known for penning the enduring pro-Palestinian anthem Ounadikom, has died at the age of 70. His passing was confirmed on Thursday by his ...