Not just Dubai, Sydney welcomed the New Year with its traditional fireworks display, featuring around 40,000 pyrotechnic ...

Diva: From Umm Kulthum to Dalida, showing at Beirut’s Sursock Museum, celebrates legendary singers, actresses and dancers ...

A pioneering Jerusalem women’s choir is transforming song into resistance as they confront Israel’s restrictions to carry their message worldwide ...

As Bahrain marks its 54th National Day on 16 December 2025, the nation celebrates not just its sovereignty but the boundless ...

Spotify has revealed its list of the Top Middle East and North Africa artists and songs globally for 2025, spotlighting how music from the region continues to travel across the world. Shaped by ...

To be fair, Kulthum was as close to royalty as a singer could get in a culture where women in the arts were still rare.

Despite huge collaborations, top-selling albums and sellout tours, the leading stars of the Dominican genre still feel like ...

In northeast Syria, Kurdish women are using music and performance to assert cultural identity, promote female empowerment and ...

The Oakland-based experimental artist Chrystia Cabral, a.k.a. SPELLLING, resists genre categorization in a way that allows ...

Join us for the closing celebration of MEI’s Arab Pop Art exhibition, featuring a live performance by Syrian-American rapper, ...

Moroccan superstar, Manal, to talk about her return to music, navigating motherhood, activism in her home country, and ...

National Arab Orchestra founder Michael Ibrahim joined the program to share his musical origins and why he believes music can bring communities together. After a family trip to Syria at the tender age ...