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 ...

"I'm quite a coward," Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. "I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career." It's a surprisingly candid confession from ...

As the music video begins, the images play in the grainy, flickering manner of an old movie. A group of men carries a child on a bloody stretcher. A man in a black kaffiyeh calls out as he carries an ...

Ahmad Abu Mlhem only needs to hear a few bars before he's hooked. "Oh yeah," he says with a smile. "I like that." The song blaring from the 48-year-old Jordanian tour guide's screechy car radio is ...

BABYLON, Iraq – Poetry has returned to the Triangle of Death, but dancing and singing are being left behind. In this dusty southern community, home to the renowned archaeological site of Babylon and ...