Remembering El Rayes Zakaria, Egypt’s folk music revolutionary giant. Zakaria Ibrahim’s life saw the rise and fall of simsimiyya music in his hometown of Port Said, before its reemergence in ...

Hoping to prevent the music from vanishing all together, Zakaria Ibrahim established El Mastaba which became the centre for numerous bands who perform Egyptian folk music. Ibrahim founded his band ...

El Tanbura: Egyptian folk music at its best El Tanbura, Egypt's leading folk band, take pride in their country's history of resistance. Now, they're bringing their protest songs to Britain.

Egypt’s musician’s union has banned the popular street music mahraganat after one song was deemed too "immoral" for the Arab world's most populous country.. The head of the Musicians Syndicate ...

CAIRO, April 4 (Xinhua) -- On a breezy Monday night in Egypt's Giza, artists from China and Egypt staged a folk music concert against the backdrop of the Grand Pyramids and Sphinx lit-up in silver ...

Egyptian culture also plays a key element in the series — ancient gods appear as characters, both good and evil — and Nazih blended folk instruments such as the arghul, mizmar (both reed ...

As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, ...

On Feb. 11 Egypt President Hosni Mubarak finally resigned after more than two weeks of mass demonstrations in Cairo. As I write this it looks like the military will act ...

"Egyptian and Chinese folk music can communicate and complete one another in many areas. For example, we can take music sentences from a Chinese track and play them in an Egyptian style, ...

Artists from China and Egypt stage a folk music concert against the backdrop of the Grand Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, on April 3, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

Artists from China and Egypt stage a folk music concert against the backdrop of the Grand Pyramids in Giza, Egypt, on April 3, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] "I am interested in Chinese culture, especially ...