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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...

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

Rapper L7a9ed (El Haqed, rapper from Morocco), Ramy Essam (singer from Egypt, who raps here), Karim Rush, Egyptian rapper from the group...

The Moroccan rapper, El Haqed, recently released from prison for the third time, published an opinion piece today (October 6) in Al Jazeera...

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"...

This looks like a terrific book.   According to the publisher :  This book is a crowd-sourced and crowd-funded collaboration o...

Today's (December 15) New York Times featured this photo (in both the print and the online versions) from Jehane Noujaim's very we...

Volume 2 of Orient-Institut Studies (put out by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Orient-Institut Istanbul) recently came out (the jour...

The title is: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Democratic Transition." It's one of the best things I've re...

I missed it, she covered mahragan (which she calls electro shaabi), as well as rocker Ramy Essam and graffiti artist Ganzeer, on September 4...

I haven't had a chance to watch/listen to the papers yet, but I wanted to call this event to readers' attention. In October 2012, th...

As of today, Friday February 22, Port Said is in its 5th day of a general strike. As James Dorsey tells us , the leading forces in the strik...

That's what a personal blog is for, right? Three items. 1. My article , "Egypt's Music of Protest: From Sayyid Darwish to DJ ...

Check out "Heela Heela," from El Tanbura's album Friends of Bamboute: 20th Anniversary Editio n. You can listen to it an...

courtesy Stronghold Sound, this: Khat Thaleth by Stronghold Sound "Advance promo release of Khat Thaleth 23 tracks compilation of ...

everywere, says Zeid (ex- Soap Kills ). including Bahrain.

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...

Courtesy El Zeft .