A girl challenges me to play an Arabic song during a live piano session, and her reaction says it all. Captured in one take, ...
JMSN, who is wearing a white tank top and jeans, dances with a cigarette in his mouth, surrounded by others in a dimly lit room. You don’t have to doom-scroll for too long to thumb across it. A pale, ...
Across the region, Arab indie rock has carved out its own sound — gritty, poetic, and fiercely independent. It’s the voice of ...
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 ...