يبحث يوسف علي كيف تعيد إصدارات المهرجانات الكثيفة تشكيل قوائم الاستماعات في المنطقة وتتحدى هيمنة البوب العربي.
Youssef Ali examines how mahraganat’s relentless output is reshaping streaming charts and challenging Arab pop’s dominance.
With Farasha, Inez moves across genres and borders. She tells us why the album’s Passport approach was never a calculated strategy.
Maha’s 1979 debut Orkos fused funk, disco, soft rock and jazz with Arabic roots, then vanished. Decades later, it became a cult classic.
Shabjdeed’s Saint Levant diss exposes the pressure on Palestinians to remain legible and dignified “perfect victims.”
Jordanian singer Reina Khoury returns with ‘Bi Alami,’ the opening statement of her debut album REINA – and her most honest work yet.
TÄRA named her own genre, dropped her debut EP on the anniversary of the Nakba, and is making music Italy has no category for.
From sun-soaked afternoons to 5 AM closing sets, Sandbox 12 returned to El Gouna with two moods and one clear identity.
On their debut full-length, Traces, Shkoon go beyond surface hybridity – into memory, exile, and the sounds that outlast the moment.
Everything you need to know about the setting, the crowd and the music at Sandbox 12 before heading to the festival.
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