Nancy Ajram, the Lebanese icon who is often called the queen of Arab pop, gives an exclusive interview to Rolling Stone.

BEIRUT (AP) — One of the Arab world’s most famous singers, Sabah Fakhri, who has entertained generations with traditional songs and preserved nearly extinct forms of Arabic music, has died, Syria’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They were feminist pioneers, immortalized by their music. The magic of singers like Fairuz and Umm Kulthum still makes the Arab ...

The Arab world mourns the loss of Egyptian music icon Hany Shaker, who passed away at the age of 73 after a prolonged battle with illness. Shaker's departure leaves a significant void in the realm of ...

France hosted a large charity concert for Lebanon on Thursday evening at the Arab World Institute in Paris, where several ...

Rocks Off combs through Craigslist’s postings hoping to find the genesis of some great musical endeavor. So when we saw a posting looking for Arabic singers, we were intrigued. After all, this is a ...

CAIRO (Reuters Life!) - Algerian singer and guitarist Souad Massi says that by spanning two cultures, Arab and Western, she has won some new fans on both sides of the divide. Massi, 34, plays American ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese singer Ghada Shbeir has breathed new life into a 1,000-year-old form of Arabic music which she says was close to extinction. Known as "muwashahat", her songs trace their ...

The music pours out of the speaker, a lush string section playing a unison melody rich with Middle Eastern overtones. Then, suddenly, a woman’s voice eases through the background--sensuous and throaty ...

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(AP) A young Arab woman who won a popular Israeli music competition has become an unlikely star, capturing hearts in a country where suspicion and hostility often mark relations between Arabs and the ...

Israel is mentioned three times in the story. After introducing Fairuz as the voice of Lebanon with three short song clips, ...