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"Aswan Dam. We are loyal to our friends and always help them in a brotherly unmercenary way." Soviet poster, 1970s. Source here . ...

I very much like this photo of a Nubian (I presume) kid looking at the photo welcoming USSR Premier Nikita Krushchev on his May, 1964 visit ...

 courtesy Rasha Latif

“Hajj Elias holds picture of himself playing oud before Tahgeer [removal” [photo: Nour El Refai] Amazing photo from an article in AlAraby.co...

Um Kalthum, early in her career.  Publicity photo from Odeon.  Courtesy Akassah , Center for Photography, NYU Abu Dhabi.

 I gave a paper at the conference last December, and posted last month a bit from my paper, about Khidr and his song, "Ismi Hunak....

Khidr al-'Attar When I lived in Cairo (1992-96), and once work on my book on Palestine was wrapping up, I started doing research o...

I first heard Bob Azzam's "Ya Mustapha" when I moved to Beirut in 1964, it was one of the very few songs in Arabic t...

Nubian Egyptian composer, oud player, tar player, and vocalist Hamza El Din live in concert at the Borough of Manhattan Community Colleg...

The divine Shadia, who passed away in November 2017, performs a song composed by Munir Mourad (Leila's brother), "Ya Habibi Oud Li ...

One of my favorite tracks by the legendary Egyptian star Mohamed Mounir. From his 1981 album, Shababeek. Lyrics by Sayed Higab; melody,...

Ramy Essam was at the University of Arkansas campus on January 22, courtesy The House of Songs Ozarks (based in Bentonville). He did a jam a...

And a few reminders of why Egyptians love Dalida (born in Shubra, Cairo, in 1933, so much): Dalida in the Egyptian film, Siga...

I've been reading Margaret Farrell's excellent dissertation ("Aspects of Adaptation in the Egyptian Singing Film", CUNY 2...

In 2005 a chapter I wrote entitled " Against Hybridity: The case of Enrico Macias/Gaston Ghrenassia" appeared in a book I...

In the very fine documentary Nuh el-Hamam (Wailing of the Doves), 2004, directed by Amir Ramsis, 2006), we learn that the Port Said singer ...

I'm doing a lot of reading and video and movie watching on the topic of mahraganat for a writing project, and I thought I...

Ok, so I'm behind on posting...this is from 4 months ago, sorry! In any case, it's an excellent one from France's DJ No Brea...

"get to know what fadoul sounded like when he was playing around with rapping, disco from egypt, coladera from algeria, an arabic take...

This is a quite interesting documentary, from MTV, about the period running up to the Tamarrod-organized demonstration of June 30, 2013, an...