AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

CAIRO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Backed by a troupe on drums and tambourines, 72-year-old Um Sameh performs songs that gradually crescendo against waves of percussion. One of the last practitioners of Zar ...

On Friday 18 April, Egypt's three-day 3al Ganoob music festival in Red Sea's Marsa Alam kicked off bringing 19 of the region's most entrancing independent musicians for non-stop beach jamming, sunset ...

This is the second MIM-produced exhibition%2C mostly from the museum%27s collection%2C and 90 percent of it unseen by visitors. Visitors can get interactive on a 6-foot communal drum created by local ...

El-Sawy Culturewheel, River Hall, 26th of July street, Zamalek, Cairo El-Haggar is one of the best-known singers in Egypt and the Arab world over the past four decades. His songs carry lyrics drawn ...