How do you become a pop star in a region where you might be arrested for shaking hands with your fans? In April, Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman, winner of the Arab reality TV show "Star Academy" ...

Danny Hajjar has always been surrounded by Arabic music. He grew up in the U.S., but his parents are both Lebanese immigrants who had it on all the time. DANNY HAJJAR: So it's really intrinsic to who ...

Laylit When: Feb. 17 from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Where: Spot Lite What: An Arabic dance party Who: Local DJs Tammy Lakkis and aa3, plus Montreal DJ Mnsa, and NYC DJ Saphe. Why: Celebrate culture with ...

The award-winning Arabic search engine Araby (araby.com) yesterday announced the launch of Araby Music (music.araby.com), an innovative search tool to explore, and access, a blend of Arabic melodies.

Modern Arabic popular music is rarely concerned with the noise inside. For decades, singers and songwriters across the region have written about heartbreak, love, longing and faith, but rarely about ...

Egyptian artist TUL8TE doesn’t want you to know anything personal about him. He is here to make you listen — not to his story, but to his music. We spoke over a camera-less Zoom call in December, ...

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 In his lecture, Freund refers to examples of Arab music videos ...

Whether you’re wanting to see a country music legend, a classic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted act, take in sets by a pair of popular R&B stars or explore Arab pop music and Latin ballads, ...