The reedy tones of a synthesizer bleed into the soundscape of dissonant electronics. Subsonic bass shakes the earth as metallic percussion comes down like thunder. When the storm breaks, a frantic ...

The underground genre known as Mahraganat is hugely popular in Egypt – but not with everyone. Adham Youssef explores the controversy. Since the 1970s, popular working-class music in Egypt has been ...

The recent ban on Mahraganat, a new form of popular music, has sparked heated debate Mahraganat, or festival, music, also known as electro-folk or working-class rap, is all the rage in Egypt, changing ...

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Mahraganat, or festival, music, also known as electro-folk or working-class rap, is all the rage in Egypt, changing the nature of song and wedding traditions across the country. It has also given ...

Mahraganat is a style of bombastic Egyptian street music that has gained in massive popularity across the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., even as it’s officially been banned at home… By Peter ...