Arabic Music and Beyond
A One-Stop Source for Arabic Music and Culture
General Arabic Music Resources | MP3s and Other Music Files | |
Arabic Music - Links to sites for Arabic music stars, lyrics, and music samples around the Web. Arabic Music Page, The - Formerly a page for the Usenet group rec.music.arabic, it is now more general in its focus with information on various styles and aspects of Arabic music. Middle Eastern Music: Translated Song Lyrics - Translations into English of over 40 popular Middle Eastern songs; including Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Armenian, and Greek. Music of the Maghreb - Information about music from Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. Raicom Project - Music from the Northern African Maghreb countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco). |
Abdoo's Homepage - Sound clips from Arabic artists. Arabic Jukebox - Hundreds of Arabic songs to download from many different artists. Arabic MP3 SongsCollection of high-quality Arabic songs in MP3 format. Box Entertainment - Huge collection of RealAudio samples of Arabic singers. Kalimat - A fast-loading set of RealAudio sound clips. Libyan Music - RealAudio samples of Libyan music. Smiley's Arabic Song Page - Java-heavy page of Arabic songs in RealAudio. |
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Artist Profiles and Information | Culture/History | |
El-Khawli, Rabih - An Arabic singing superstar born in Lebanon. Farabi - Four musicians who combine musical influences from Turkey, the Arab world, and Greece. Hafez, Abdel Halim - Egyptian vocalist popular in the 50's. Rashed - Egyptian vocalist with an international flavor and a repertoire in Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, and English. Video and sound clips (Quicktime required), bio, recording info, news. Stars of the Oasis - A band of young Arab musicians with a variety of Middle Eastern influnces. Sultan, Amin - Lebanese singing star now based in North America. |
Arab Culture - Features about many different aspects of Arabic culture and links to
sites including Music, Law, History, Film, and Food. From About.com
Guide Patrick Lyons. Islam - About.com Guide Christine Huda Dodge explores many different aspects of the religion practised by the majority of the world's Arab population. Khalid Hussein's Homepage - A very interesting page about Palestinian culture, including some songs -- very Java-heavy. |
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Reviews | Buy Music | |
From Cairo to
Casablanca - A review of the album From Cairo to Casablanca: An Arabic Music Odyssey on the Putumayo label. Music from the Palestinian Holy Land - An album review of a CD of sacred Palestinian wedding music. |
Arabic Music Info Source - Where you can buy Arabic music, along with recommendations of what to buy. |