In another in our series about the Kennedy Center's Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs ...

In the spring of 1967, Columbia Records released “Hard Rock From the Middle East,” the first Arabic-language rock album put out by a major label. Ravi Shankar and George Harrison had popularized the ...

Bollywood has always been a melting pot of cultures, especially when it comes to music. Over the decades, Hindi cinema has borrowed, blended and beautifully reimagined sounds from around the world.

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Farah Kaddour has dedicated her life to the buzuq, a long-necked fretted lute with a bold and resonant sound ...