Music

Elyanna faces backlash over prison visuals in ‘BOSA’ music video

Viewers question Palestinian-Chilean singer's decision to use jail as backdrop amid grim reality of Palestinian women in Israeli detention

The voice and the rifle: How Umm Kulthum became a target of the Mossad

Majd Asadi

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Palestine campaigners to increase pressure on Eurovision after Israel approved to take part

Israel's genocide in Gaza

Israel and Eurovision: Why do countries want to boycott a song contest?

The Dream Journey: Coming to terms with music in Pakistan's Indo-Islamic culture

Massive Attack, Kneecap and others form musician alliance against 'silencing' by pro-Israel groups

Soundtrack of a revolution: The rise of Sudan's Beja music

'Where is Amal Maher?': Egyptian social media in frenzy over singer's 'disappearance'

Marwa al-Sabouni: 'I’m not liberal, I’m not conservative, I’m just Muslim'

Three instruments you didn’t know came from the Middle East

Lebanese singer Elissa's duet with accused rapist Saad Lamjarred sparks backlash

Omar: The opera that tells the story of an enslaved Islamic scholar

Musician Dana al-Fardan on influences, activism and being the sound of Qatar Airways

Six-year-old girl’s busking initiative to fundraise for children’s hospital in Egypt

Yallah, brudi: How Arabic and Turkish took over German hip-hop

How the vulgarity of mahraganat taught me to accept my Egyptianess

Don't Leave: Reviving the folk songs of Palestinian women

Five Arabic Christmas songs to get you through the festive season