Rai music in Oran and the Kasbah of Algiers.

As physical media continues its comeback, The National rounds up the best releases this month across film, music, art and more. Born in Oran, a port city in Algeria, Rai music grew from a folk ...

The Canadian press showed great interest in the Egyptian pop music as well as the Algerian Rai music as it allocated large areas on its pages for dialogues with the Algerian singer Cheb Khaled who ...