Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist ...
Her most famous song, "Batwanes Beek," begins with string instruments creating a typical sound of Arab orchestras. The song ...
This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on December 26, 2023. Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: Danny Hajjar is a Lebanese American music journalist and curator of the weekly ...
A performance of a traditional Arabic song by a group of students in Ottawa went viral over the weekend in conjunction with the arrival of Syrian refugees in the country. A video posted to YouTube ...
Between 12-16 March Mahatat for Contemporary Art performed music on the balconies of buildings in four Egyptians cities — Port Said, Damietta, Mansoura and Cairo — for their new artistic intervention, ...
Now granted, those lyrics do sound better in Arabic when they rhyme – but still, for those of us familiar with the original US version, it’s a pretty far out there departure. Batman: The Animated ...