Flautist Shahidul Islam, a native of Brahmanbaria, reminisced about the first time he held a flute at a local Baishakhi Mela, ...

Libyan authorities have clamped down on rap music for violating "moral rules." Artists fear a return to cultural repression, ...

Libyan authorities have clamped down on rap music for violating "moral rules." Artists fear a return to cultural repression ...

During rally near Wittenbergplatz metro station in Berlin, some protesters deliver speeches in Arabic and chant anti-Israel ...

Music can be a more engaging vehicle for vocabulary and sentence development than repetitive drills and memorization lessons.

In Libya, the space for creative expression is rapidly shrinking, as different political factions seek to control the ...

Nollywod actress Iyabo Ojo's daughter and second child Priscilla Ojo has finally tied the knot with her man and singer Juma ...

Mona Haydar is many things—rapper, poet, activist, scholar, mother. A voice for the marginalized, she serves as a bridge ...

Muslim hard-liners’ threats have forced a shrine of the mystic Sufi branch of Islam to abandon the customary devotional music and dance program during its annual celebration. The shrine dedicated to ...

For Billboard Arabia’s first cover story of 2025, we explore the dynamic world of Al Shami, the young star who has taken the Arabic music scene by storm, soaring to stardom in less than two years.

Musical mode identification is an essential problem in computational musicology, particularly for non-Western tunings and modal systems such as maqam or raga. Traditional approaches to mode ...