MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. DAMASCUS, Syria — When the Iraq War began, Fadi Fares Aziz cut up his flute ...

Dudu Tassa and how Iraqi Arabic-Jewish music became hip again The grandson of the famous Daoud al-Kuwaiti, Tassa continues the family music tradition, bringing his fans the Arabic Iraqi music they ...

When Israeli rock musician and singer Dudu Tassa said he wanted to rework and re-popularise his grandfather's repertoire of Iraqi Arabic songs from the 1930s, everyone thought he was crazy. But with ...

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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 ...

Fans dressed smartly in elegant evening wear form an orderly queue around the block of west London's Eventim Apollo, some enthusiastically waving Iraqi flags, the cold January air doing little to ...