Ahmed Adaweyah was a trailblazer – the man who singlehandedly changed the course of Egyptian and Arab music; the first Arab singer to capture the ethos and struggles and yearnings of the working class ...

There is also the famous story of the awkward relationship that Um Kolthoum had with Mounira Al-Mahdia, who controlled the world of Egyptian music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior ...

This set of five songs supports the popular cross-curriculum topic of Ancient Egypt, with music evoking the atmosphere of a distant time and place while also bringing in sound elements from ...

“It is young artists like Marwan Moussa and his outside-the-box vision of what Arabic popular music should look like that has shifted the Egyptian and Arab music scene,” says Big ...

including follow-up music activities based on it and suggestions for cross-curricular study. This is a bronze hook from Ancient Egypt. This object or artefact takes us back over three thousand ...

Bayou also describes his approach as a natural result of creating music back in Cairo after years abroad. "I found that my songs were gradually becoming more Egyptian, and people connected with ...

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“Hundred per cent is not enough,” she would tell her students, expecting them to master the music to perfection and infuse it with their own individuality. Issa performed extensively in Egypt ...