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Songs That Embody the Pulse of Egypt’s Cities

Today, September 15th, Egypt celebrates its first-ever National Music Day — the perfect excuse to think about how songs carry more than melodies. Some tracks feel like they belong to specific places, ...
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Love songs of the New Kingdom. Translated from the ancient Egyptian by John L. Foster. Illustrated with hieroglyphs drawn by the translator and with paintings from Egyptian ...

Some rather lively lines (Papyrus Chester Beatty I)--Songs inscribed on an earthen vessel (Cairo ostracon 25218)--Songs of the garden (Papyrus Harris 500)--Songs of great heart's ease (Papyrus Chester ...
Rolling Stone

The 50 Best Arabic Pop Songs of the 21st Century

Encompassing dozens of countries inhabited by close to 500 million people, the Arab world is enormously diverse, and its music reflects that. Our list of the 50 best Arabic pop songs of the 21st ...
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The voice of Egypt : Umm Kulthūm, Arabic song, and Egyptian society in the twentieth century / Virginia Danielson

"The voice and face of Egypt" Some questions ; Speech about music ; Listening ; Performing ; "Popular" music ; The individual ; Social issues -- Childhood in the Egyptian delta. "Min al-Mashāyikh" ; ...