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It is a bitter thing for an artist to suddenly descend from stardom to obscurity through no fault of his own. When Daoud al-Kuwaiti and his brother Salah were forced to leave Iraq for Israel in 1951, ...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Farouk Hassan's eyes well up with tears as he cranks his car's CD player and sings along with the latest hit, a lament to his lost love: violence-torn Baghdad. But it is not just ...

In the Hatikva neighborhood of South Tel Aviv, the streets and parks carry names that pay homage to seminal figures in Israel’s history. Menachem Begin Park is named after the Israeli Prime Minister ...

No Arabian Nights theme was used to sell tickets here. Just over a thousand people-many of them part of Miami’s Arab and Middle Eastern diaspora, but just as many from outside it-gathered beneath ...

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 ...