In Cairo, Beirut and other Arab capitals, his face is plastered on entertainment magazines, his music videos are memorized scene by scene and his lyrics are recited by young and old alike. Kazem ...

Encompassing dozens of countries inhabited by close to 500 million people, the Arab world is enormously diverse, and its music reflects that. Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st ...

BABYLON, Iraq – Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death, but dancing and singing are being left behind. In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned archaeological site of Babylon and ...

As the music video begins, the images play in the grainy, flickering manner of an old movie. A group of men carries a child on a bloody stretcher. A man in a black kaffiyeh calls out as he carries an ...

For four long years, life has been brutally unkind to most Iraqis, but Friday night they had one of those rare moments to focus beyond the daily violence that is swallowing their lives. One of their ...

Ahmad Abu Mlhem only needs to hear a few bars before he's hooked. "Oh yeah," he says with a smile. "I like that." The song blaring from the 48-year-old Jordanian tour guide's screechy car radio is ...

The United States has sent its most potent weapon to Iraq to battle Islamic State. She’s a 5-foot-6-inch, 60-year-old grandmother. When I served as a military advisor to Iraqi security forces in 2011, ...