Mahraganat is a style of bombastic Egyptian street music that has gained in massive popularity across the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., even as it’s officially been banned at home… By Peter ...

My sister and I have little to nothing in common. A fashion stylist turned marketer for influencers, she moved to the US in 2002, seeking the American dream. Over the years, she converted to ...

Mahraganat, or festival, music, also known as electro-folk or working-class rap, is all the rage in Egypt, changing the nature of song and wedding traditions across the country. It has also given ...

Stroll through Egypt's capital and you can count on hearing two kinds of music. The first has been around for decades: the rich, sedate voice of Egypt's favourite diva, Umm Kulthum. The second is a ...

The ban is seen as an oppressing decision against a type of popular art Add as a preferred source on Google Egyptian mahraganat sensation Hassan Shakoush performed this week at a sell-out Valentine's ...

The underground genre known as Mahraganat is hugely popular in Egypt – but not with everyone. Adham Youssef explores the controversy. Since the 1970s, popular working-class music in Egypt has been ...

CAIRO (AP) — “We tell the stories of our people, words that come up from our alleys, listen to me to understand” — from the Mahraganat song, “El-Rab El-Masri” (Egyptian Rap) by Sadat, Fifty and Haha.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reedy tones of a synthesizer bleed into the soundscape of dissonant electronics. Subsonic bass shakes the earth as metallic ...

Mahraganat, or festival, music, also known as electro-folk or working-class rap, is all the rage in Egypt, changing the nature of song and wedding traditions across the country. It has also given ...

Stroll through Egypt's capital and you can count on hearing two kinds of music. The first has been around for decades: the rich, sedate voice of Egypt's favourite diva, Umm Kulthum. The second is a ...