The Lebanese composer’s fusion of Middle Eastern and Western music created a new genre during the country’s civil war. Lebanese composer and arranger Ihsan Al-Mounzer pioneered 'belly dance disco', a ...
“We don’t paste oriental sounds on occidental beats, we want to embody both cultures without pretending to reinvent oriental music or fooling ourselves by believing we’re inventing Eastern dance music ...
4:55 ‘Yalla! Let’s Talk’ platform tackles identity issues for immigrant Arab youth A crowd of partygoers begins to sway their hips to the melodic beats of Arabic music as Philippe Manasseh, the DJ and ...