patriotic songs
Album review: The secret to ‘Roaming Your Streets’ is poetry
Art news
March 26, 2012
Album review: The secret to ‘Roaming Your Streets’ is poetry
Last year, Egyptian singer Mohamed Mohsen got into a heated debate with leading musician Hany Shenouda about the future of…
Rousing patriotic pageantry at the 20th Arab Music Festival
Art news
November 12, 2011
Rousing patriotic pageantry at the 20th Arab Music Festival
The 20th Arab Music Festival and Conference opened Friday evening at the Cairo Opera House with a dramatic pageant of…
Remembering Abdel Halim Hafez, the voice of revolution
Art news
June 21, 2011
Remembering Abdel Halim Hafez, the voice of revolution
When the late Abdel Halim Hafez (1929-77) first sang his patriotic songs in the 1950s and 1960s, he didn’t imagine…