Fathiya Ahmed (1898-1975) was one of three daughters of a Qur’an reciter, Sheikh Ahmed El-Hamzawi. Each of her two sisters, ...

Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist ...

We present the second episode on Egyptian singer Fatheyia Ahmed, the singer of two regions.

The week’s most popular Arabic songs across the globe based on streaming activity from more than 200 territories around the ...

This transcript is from a CSIS podcast published on December 26, 2023. Listen to the podcast here. Jon Alterman: Danny Hajjar is a Lebanese American music journalist and curator of the weekly ...