The underground genre known as Mahraganat is hugely popular in Egypt – but not with everyone. Adham Youssef explores the controversy. Since the 1970s, popular working-class music in Egypt has been ...
WHAT’S IN A NAME? The name comes from mahragan, or festival, because the songs mainly rely on a fast beat, dancing, and being blared out over speakers. You cannot listen to this music with the volume ...
It might be almost impossible to pinpoint the most popular or successful music productions of the year, as is success really measurable? Should we follow the charts or count the views on YouTube or ...
As they navigate the narrow streets of Cairo, tuk-tuk drivers blast mahraganat from their speakers. The music’s sound is distinctive: the Egyptian ri’ (tambourine) and tabla (drum) are combined with ...
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The decision was announced by the syndicate board during a press conference at its headquarters on Sunday to introduce newly-elected union president Mostafa Kamel. Kamel, 52, who was elected on ...
Egypt’s musician’s union has banned the popular street music mahraganat after one song was deemed too "immoral" for the Arab world's most populous country. The head of the Musicians Syndicate, singer ...
Mahraganat is a style of bombastic Egyptian street music that has gained in massive popularity across the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., even as it’s officially been banned at home… By Peter ...
When Egypt’s 2011 revolution came, it had its own sound. Past the initial eruption of chants, screams, gunshots, and cheers, there existed a single sustained note of euphoria that, for many, was ...
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