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 ...

"I'm quite a coward," Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. "I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career." It's a surprisingly candid confession from ...

Only hours after expressing his outrage over Busta Rhymes controversial song Arab Money, Iraqi-born rapper The Narcicyst told AllHipHop.com that he received a personal phone call from Busta himself ...

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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New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI): To commemorate Jewish refugees from Arab countries, popular Israeli Band Radio Baghdad, which is currently on a tour of India, performed pieces from the great ...

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 ...

Ahmad Abu Mlhem only needs to hear a few bars before he's hooked. "Oh yeah," he says with a smile. "I like that." The song blaring from the 48-year-old Jordanian tour guide's screechy car radio is ...

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 ...

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 ...