While playing piano in public, a girl came up and asked me to play an Arabic song. I gave it a try — and her reaction was ...

Until recently, Arab music had been used by American and European studios and popular media in a way that “was very orientalist,” playing on racist tropes, according to writer and music journalist ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The makers of an excellent album of reimagined Arabic songs have convened in an industrial estate on the ...

While I was playing piano in public, this girl asked me to play an Arabic song — and I gave it a try. Her reaction made the ...