Launched on 24 November, the inaugural Pyramids Echo Festival brings a constellation of world-renowned artists to the ...

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian courts have sentenced two singers to prison time for seemingly tame behavior deemed threatening to society in a country growing increasingly repressive on all fronts. One, the ...

Leaders of a musicians’ licensing group are trying to curb mahraganat, a bold genre wildly popular with young people. It is not clear if they can. By Mona El-Naggar CAIRO — The song starts out like ...

In the first installment of the Culture and Politics Show, Louis Brehony delves into the work of Egyptian resistance singer Sheikh Imam.

(Beirut) – An Egyptian court sentenced two singers to a year in prison and fines on March 28, 2022, on charges that violate their right to freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

An Egyptian pop singer has become the second woman in less than a month to face punishment in the country after a music video posted online was deemed by critics as "an attack on society." Prosecutors ...

Egypt's state-affiliated musicians' union on Sunday announced a temporary ban on electro-beat "mahraganat" singers, the cultural establishment's latest move to crack down on the hugely popular genre.

A ban was issued on a popular genre of street music. CAIRO -- Egypt's restrictions on what it deems inappropriate forms of art have reached a new height with a ban on a popular genre of street music, ...

Carson Chamber Singers, a 60-member chorus directed by Richard Hutton, presents Handel's Israel in Egypt, an oratorio for double chorus, six vocal soloists, and Baroque orchestra, in performances in ...