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 ...

Egyptian folk music came close to disappearing a few years ago when fewer and fewer venues scheduled concerts and the number of young musicians learning to play the traditional instruments fell.

Egyptian folk singer Rico was using heroin when police ... According to Al Arabiya Net, the apartment belongs to a music composer, not Rico himself. Police have reportedly seized a total of ...

Following a year of closure, El-Damma Theatre in Cairo’s Abdeen district reopened on Thursday, 13 February, in honour of its ...

Music, and Folk Art for two decades. In the mid-2010s, he became the creative director of Beit El Sehemy Creative Centre. Moreover, he established the Sufi chanting group Egyptian Mawlawiyah in 1994.

The music of the Middle East has been influenced ... there are traces of Russian and Egyptian musical influence too.