shaabi music

Egypt’s Musicians Syndicate, headed by Hany Shaker, contacted streaming giants YouTube and SoundCloud to take down all the “mahraganat shaabi”…

The viral Mahragan song “Bent El Giran” (The neighbor’s daughter), from famed Shaabi singer Hassan Shakosh, has hit number two…

It’s not shaaby, and it’s not moulid music. It’s a mahragan, or a “festival,” and Sadat should know, considering he’s…

You must have heard the song "I'm the one whose life is so wrong,” by shaabi DJ Amr Haha. The DJs,…

It might be hard to imagine the bustling sounds of Cairo’s streets captured in an electronic music track. Can people's…