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A friend passed this on to me awhile back and I want to recommend it to you. It's from Egyptian rap group Katiba ("Batallion"...

Sultan Hassan mosque, Cairo, December 1961 ( Photo: Romain Swedenburg) My family made its first trip to the Middle East in De...

  1. Thanks to Tim Abdellah Fuson and his invaluable blog Moroccan Tape Stash, a link to samples from the Moroccan Field Recordings at...

Reading about the events of January 25, 2014, the three year anniversary of the launch of the Egyptian uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, ...

I'm stoned, I'm drunk...Stoned, drunk...Dear Mr. weed dealer/Give me two bags/Cuz I invited my friends/For a beer and two joints.

Great short vid of mahragan (AKA 'techno shaabi' or 'electro shaabi') artist DJ Islam Chipsy working his keyboard magic, in ...

Music from the Egyptian revolution. Eskenderella, Ramy Essam, rapper Mohammed el-Deeb. Shaikh Imam and Sayyid Darwish. Ahmad Fouad Negm. Gre...

This is quite wonderful. Negm talks about his poems, his career with Sheikh Imam, and about the January 25 revolution in Egypt. We see a num...

These are great clips, with subtitles in French, featuring DJ Omar Haha, Sadate and Vigo. "Lots of people criticize this music, but it...

 This is pretty unbelievable! Must listen. Link below.   خطاب الرئيس مرسي في الاستاد

Courtesy El Zeft .

Egypt has just held its first free and mostly fair elections and selected a new president. But the situation is in turmoil, as the junta (...

On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart gave a recap of the Egyptian Revolution/Counter-revolution to date, interviewed the host of the po...

Given the current state of affairs in Egypt, with the Supreme Council announcing its revisions of the constitution, which grant it much more...

Jadaliyya recently published this terrific article on the underground but now bubbling to the surface music scene which outsiders (like mys...

1. Via rupture's Mudd Up!, Sufi Plug Ins . an interdisciplinary project dedicated to exploring non-western & poetic notions of sou...

One of the most fabulous things I did while in Cairo in late March was go to see the group El Tanbura perform on March 24, at El Tanbura Hal...

This is from Cairo airport, July 2011 (thanks, NT). You might think this represents an Arab woman in "traditional" fashion, but ...

Like all companies trying to make money in the new Egypt after Mubarak, Coke & Pepsi are trying to ride the revolution. (Thanks to Robin...

photo: Abdel-Rahman Hussein Meet Yara Mekawie and Ola Saad, performing "abstract minimalist electronica" at the 100 Live Electroni...