How do you become a pop star in a region where you might be arrested for shaking hands with your fans? In April, Saudi singer Hisham Abdel Rahman, winner of the Arab reality TV show "Star Academy" ...

LONDON — Pepsi is branching out into the film biz by producing what is set to become the biggest budget Arab musical of all time. “Bahr Al Nujoom,” Arabic for sea of stars, features a line-up of some ...

Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram, dubbed the “queen of Arab pop” by Spotify, has inked a publishing deal with U.S. indie music company Reservoir Media and PopArabia, its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...

Danny Hajjar has always been surrounded by Arabic music. He grew up in the U.S., but his parents are both Lebanese immigrants who had it on all the time. DANNY HAJJAR: So it's really intrinsic to who ...

As well as being the place to catch some of the biggest musical acts, Riyadh’s Soundstorm festival has evolved over the past five years to incorporate more regional acts into the line-up. This applies ...

On December 6, Charles Paul Freund, a senior editor at Reason magazine, delivered the fourth of the 2004-2005 Bradley Lectures. Edited excerpts follow. Arab pop culture celebrates Arab individuality, ...

Laylit When: Feb. 17 from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Where: Spot Lite What: An Arabic dance party Who: Local DJs Tammy Lakkis and aa3, plus Montreal DJ Mnsa, and NYC DJ Saphe. Why: Celebrate culture with ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Reservoir Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSVR), an ...

From his office in an Arab neighborhood near the Port of Haifa, Abbasi said the ban would have a major impact on his business, given that Lebanon translates and prints more books in Arabic than any ...

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 In his lecture, Freund refers to examples of Arab music videos ...