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.

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

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 ...

One of Egypt’s most famous folk singers has released a song praising ... further straining relations. Shaabola's music video for "Big Words" Nader Fergani, an economist and professor of ...

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 ...

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