In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois staged a giant pageant called “The Star of Ethiopia” in New York, with a thousand elaborately costumed performers and detailed sets, including an Egyptian temple. Over the next ...

These days you can add to the list of unexpectedly risky professions: being a popular singer in Egypt. Sherine Abdel Wahab, known as Sherine, has been sentenced to six months in prison for "spreading ...

I see Umm Kulthum as something beyond art. In the world, there is art and then there is Umm Kulthum’s music,’ says Turkish singer and musician Arif Altunkaya - Anadolu Ajansı ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian courts have sentenced two singers to prison time for seemingly tame behavior deemed threatening to society in a country growing increasingly repressive on all fronts. One, the ...

In Egypt, popular music is dominated by slickly packaged songs and videos that critics complain are formulaic and uninspired. But a few bands are providing an alternative. One is Black Theama, which ...

Singers in Egypt have been jailed for things they've said, based on reasons like "corrupting public morals." Egyptian Singers Jailed For 'Inciting Debauchery' These days you can add to the list of ...