Before social media, before streaming took over, music videos were the event. You’d wait for them to drop on TV, then talk about them endlessly the next day. And in the early 2000s, Arab pop was ...

In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue’s ...

The Eastern Music Festival will be launched tomorrow night at Souq Waqif “to revive the classical Arabic songs with their distinguished music”, it was announced yesterday . The four-day event is ...