The undersecretary of the Ministry of Education in Cairo Mohamed Attia issued a decision on Monday banning “mahraganat shaabi” (electronic folk) music at schools. The decision further dismisses the ...

Egypt’s Musicians Syndicate, headed by Hany Shaker, contacted streaming giants YouTube and SoundCloud to take down all the “mahraganat shaabi” songs from their websites, amid a controversial decision ...

Egypt’s musician’s union has banned the popular street music mahraganat after one song was deemed too "immoral" for the Arab world's most populous country. The head of the Musicians Syndicate, singer ...

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 ...

The music video quickly rose to among the top trending music topics in Egypt and the Arab region hours after its release on the first day of the new year. The typical street pride lyrics, which ...

Egypt has long been a key hub of Arab music and a cultural powerhouse in the Arab world — MOHAMED EL-SHAHED With its catchy beats and in-your-face lyrics, Egypt's hugely popular electro "mahraganat" ...

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 ...

To delay my not-so-slow slide into irrelevance, I’ve begun to draft my manifesto. (Obviously.) So far, this is what I’ve got: 1.) No unnecessary new buildings. 2.) No unnecessary new cars. You with me ...

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 ...

Egypt’s musician’s union has banned the popular street music mahraganat after one song was deemed too "immoral" for the Arab world's most populous country. The head of the Musicians Syndicate, singer ...