The year 2025 highlighted a growing divide in Egypt’s music ecosystem, as major festivals and star-led events continued to ...

It might be almost impossible to pinpoint the most popular or successful music productions of the year, as is success really measurable? Should we follow the charts or count the views on YouTube or ...

For many decades Egypt was at the heart of Arabic music, and a pioneer of Western classical music practices in the Arab world. Egypt’s Golden Age (1950s-1970s) was known for setting trends and ...

Performing at Coachella on the lower end of the bill has its benefits - it gives you something to aim for. This realisation hit Bayou when he shared the stage as a guest of Palestinian-American artist ...

Egypt has long been a key hub of Arab music and a cultural powerhouse in the Arab world — MOHAMED EL-SHAHED With its catchy beats and in-your-face lyrics, Egypt's hugely popular electro "mahraganat" ...

Director and executive producer Mohamed Diab says this was key to his mission and saw him hire top Egyptian composer Hesham Nazih, editor Ahmed Hafez and ensure that 90 percent of the Egyptian roles ...

Egypt is set to join the global music stage with the launch of Grammy House – Giza in October 2026, announced in Cairo by Kanazawa Yukio, CEO of Japan’s Titan Capital. The event is a collaboration ...

Leaders of a musicians’ licensing group are trying to curb mahraganat, a bold genre wildly popular with young people. It is not clear if they can. By Mona El-Naggar CAIRO — The song starts out like ...