You can’t talk about 21st-century Arabic pop music without including Lebanese superstar Nancy Ajram, who first broke through in a big way with her 2003 album, Ya Salam.

For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...

Some songs just belong at weddings. They hit every single time. Whether your celebration is big and extra or small and soft, the music you choose helps tell your love story. These romantic Arabic ...

Billboard Arabia Cover Interview: The Voice Bridging Generations of Arabic Music. Billboard Arabia sits down with Angham, its October cover star, about her latest album, Tigi Neseeb, and her ...

Nafar adds that the surging popularity of today’s Arabic music is different because diaspora artists and creatives are now ... The 37 Most Anticipated Albums of Summer 2025. By Matthew Strauss.

A growing number of international artists are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine, through song. Spanning genres ...

But music streaming apps like Spotify and platforms like TikTok have offered greater access to the music and allowed new Arabic music genres to bloom, Hajjar told the PBS NewsHour’s Deema Zein.

Leveraging a partnership with Suno AI, a leader in generative audio technology, Zkrrt successfully released six albums in May 2025. These albums distinctly blend traditional Arabic instrumentation, ...

The Arabic and Hebrew music landscape has been shaken up dramatically by the Israel-Hamas war — first by shock, then silence, and now a burst of new songs.