Talking to Phil Battiekh: A Swiss DJ who plays mahraganat
The media has often placed mahraganat music in exoticizing narratives
The media has often placed mahraganat music in exoticizing narratives
This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of the big-budget, well-publicized contemporary arts festival.
While analogue synthesizers were at the center of Rami Abadir’s contribution to the My Nineties project, in his new album Shawakish — co-produced with Mustafa El Sayed — the Roland…
The third annual Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) in Cairo was a manic month of running to catch cultural events. By the end of the music program I felt as…
«2017 in music releases from Cairo and beyond»
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