Backed by music industry heavyweight Wassim “Sal” Slaiby—who helped turn the Weeknd into a stadium superstar, and recently founded Universal’s Arabic Music label—Elyanna’s brand of ...

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 ...

Oud player and Talween frontman Walid Zairi’s compositions are influenced by his Tunisian African roots and classical Arabic music background, with jazz elements layered in to create a fresh and ...

Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna made history at Coachella on Saturday as the first artist to perform a full set in Arabic at the iconic music festival in Indio, California. "I'm beyond excited.

Ziv Yehezkel, a singer, composer, and teacher of Maqam music, discovered Arabic music at age 16. Studying at a Sephardi yeshiva in Jerusalem, which he called “a shelter for Arabic music,” he ...

For Billboard Arabia's first cover story of 2025, we explore the dynamic world of Al Shami, the young star who has taken the Arabic music scene by storm, soaring to stardom in less than two years.

By Hala Mustafa With a career spanning over four decades, Abdul Majeed Abdullah has become a cornerstone of Arabic music, and his influence shows no signs of fading. Revered as “The Prince of ...

"Growing up, I listened to everything. I was a big hip hop head, I was really big into Arabic music, because our parents are immigrants. And you know, that was a big part of our culture ...

In this ground-breaking composition, the acclaimed Arab-Canadian composer, Suad Bushnaq, merges the worlds of Arabic and Baroque music like never before. Witness the convergence of two incredible ...

After years of searching, Lana Lubany has finally found out. With her dark, futuristic fusion of English and Arabic music and language, the Palestinian-American artist has landed on something ...

Western classical music is based on the art of harmony, and the melody is restricted, whereas in Arabic music, the system is based on rich melody that depends on microtonality, or the sounds that ...