Egypt News News Egypt » Music: Egypt’s music industry shifts from major to minor amid fragile economy
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 ...
News Egypt » Music: Remembering El Rayes Zakaria, Egypt’s folk music revolutionary giant
The ancient-looking PA system was not meant to handle the immensity of sound produced by famed Nile Delta folk music ensemble El Tanbura as they warmed up for a show on the streets of Ismailia on a ...
News Egypt » Music: Marwan Moussa Already Defined Egyptian Rap. He Wants to Go Even Further
The first few seconds of Marwan Moussa’s song “3AMEL EH” open with an interaction between the rapper and a voice that seemingly belongs to his therapist. The therapist can be heard asking the ...
News Egypt » Music: Dutch DJ brings Egypt's 'electro-shaabi' street music to Europe
LONDON (Reuters) - A Dutch DJ is bringing underground Egyptian street music to Western night clubs with the hope that it will paint the troubled North African country in a better light. Music producer ...
News Egypt » Music: In Egypt, a vibrant brand of street music is outlawed as censorship deepens
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Hamo Bika rose up from the slums of this northern coastal city to become one of Egypt's most popular musicians. He has amassed millions of followers on YouTube and SoundCloud. He ...
News Egypt » Music: Sherine Abdel Wahab’s North Coast concert ignites fan reactions across Egypt, Arab world
Fans across Egypt and the wider Arab world flooded social media with reactions to Sherine Abdel Wahab’s return to the Egyptian stage on 7 August, with hashtags related to her Sahel concert trending ...
News Egypt » Music: Sixty years of sound: The cassette’s past, present and future in Egypt
Sixty years ago, the compact audio cassette debuted at the German Radio Exhibition. Behind this innovation was Lou Ottens, a Dutch engineer who, the story goes, was home one night listening to music ...
News Egypt » Music: Secularists and conservatives in Egypt battle over music videos
The trend has stirred controversy in Egypt’s deeply conservative Muslim society with many Egyptians rejecting what they describe as “the pornification of pop music”. They insist that the “graphic, ...