Rogér Fahkr always had a restless and creative soul. At 17 years old, he left his home in Beirut to walk across Lebanon with his guitar, playing folk songs in English, Arabic and French. But this free ...

In another in our series about the Kennedy Center’s Arabesque art festival, Jeffrey Brown profiles Lebanese folk singer Marcel Khalife, who for nearly 40 years has been rousing audiences with songs ...

Discover Blogly is The FADER’s curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries. Farah Kaddour has dedicated her life to the buzuq, a long-necked fretted lute with a bold and resonant sound ...

It’s 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night in Tel Aviv and young Israelis, wearing horn-rimmed glasses, vintage floral print dresses, and man buns are sipping drinks in a dimly lit bar. A Lebanese track from ...

Another excellent Sublime Frequencies collection of Omar Souleyman's work, these very modern electronic Arabic folk songs were recorded live. Save this story Save this story The Arabic word "jazeera" ...