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Hoda Saad
Hoda Saad (هدى سعد, also Houda Saad) is a Moroccan singer-songwriter born in Casablanca in 1981, nicknamed the "ambassador of Moroccan song" for carrying Darija into pan-Arab pop.
Houari Benchenet
Houari Benchenet (هواري بن شنات) is an Algerian raï singer from Oran, born in 1961, who records since 1977 and helped lead Oran's electric raï generation with about 400 songs.
Inkonnu
Inkonnu is a Moroccan rapper and singer, formerly of the A6 Gang collective, known for blending rap with pop, R&B, and trap; his second album, Split, arrived in 2026.
Jazzablanca
Jazzablanca, also known as the Jazzablanca Festival, is an annual music festival in Casablanca, Morocco, first staged in 2006 as a jazz festival and now spanning pop, rock, and electronic music.
Jerash Festival
The Jerash Festival (مهرجان جرش) is an annual summer festival of music, poetry, theater, and heritage held since 1981 in the Roman ruins of Jerash, north of Amman, Jordan.
Joseph Attieh
Joseph Attieh (جوزيف عطية) is a Lebanese Arabic-pop singer, born in 1987, who rose to fame as the first Lebanese winner of Star Academy Arab World in 2005.
Karl Wolf
Karl Wolf, born Karl Abou Samah in Beirut in 1979, is a Lebanese-Canadian pop and R&B singer best known for his 2008 cover of Toto's "Africa."
Kekra
Kekra, verlan for "crack", is a masked French rapper from Courbevoie, active since 2015, known for the Vréel mixtapes and albums including Land (2018) and Stratos (2023).
La Ya Sadiki
La Ya Sadiki (لا يا صديقي) is a 1990 album and song by Iraqi singer Kadim Al Sahir, roughly 47 minutes long, the longest of his career.
Latifa
Latifa (لطيفة), full name Latifa Bint Alaya El Arfaoui, is a Tunisian Arab pop singer born in 1961 who built her career in Egypt and won the 2004 World Music Award.
Levantine Pop
Levantine pop is the Arabic pop industry and sound centered on Beirut and Damascus from the 1990s onward, built on satellite television and backed by Gulf capital through Rotana.
Liberté
"Liberté" is a song by the Algerian rapper and singer Soolking with Ouled El Bahdja, released in March 2019 and adopted as an anthem of Algeria's Hirak protests.
Lil Baba
Lil Baba (ليل بابا) is an Egyptian rapper and producer in Cairo's trap and mahraganat scene, first known for producing hits for the Mexico Crew.
Los Niños de Sara
Los Niños de Sara, also written Los Ninos De Sara, is a French Gitano rumba group formed in Montpellier in 1990, later the band behind Alabina with singer Ishtar.
Maamoun Al-Shinnawi
Maamoun Al-Shinnawi (مأمون الشناوي) was an Egyptian poet and lyricist who wrote hundreds of songs for Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, and other leading Arab singers.
Mahmoud Guinia
Maâlem Mahmoud Guinia, also Mahmoud Gania, was a Moroccan Gnawa master musician from Essaouira, foremost exponent of the Saouiri style, who recorded with Pharoah Sanders and died in 2015.
Mahmoud Refat
Mahmoud Refat, also spelled Mahmoud Refaat, is an Egyptian electronic and experimental musician and producer who founded the Cairo label 100Copies in 2006 and championed mahraganat street music.
Mai Selim
Mai Selim (مي سليم), born Mai Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim in 1983, is a Jordanian singer and actress who grew up in Egypt and performs Egyptian-dialect Arabic pop.
Marcel Khalifa
Marcel Khalife, also known as Marcel Khalifé, is a Lebanese composer, singer, and oud player born in 1950, best known for setting Mahmoud Darwish's poetry to music.
Massar Egbari
Massar Egbari (مسار إجبارi), meaning "Compulsory Detour", is an Egyptian rock band formed in Alexandria in 2005 and a leading act in Egypt's independent music scene.
Massari and Ali Gatie
Massari (Sari Abboud) and Ali Gatie are Arab-Canadian singers based in Toronto who recorded the 2020 UN World Food Programme song "I See The Dream (Badna Salam)" together.
Mayada El Hennawi
Mayada El Hennawi, also known as Mayada al-Hinawi, is a Syrian singer of classical Arabic tarab, born in Aleppo in 1959 and known as the Songstress of the Generation.
Mazzika TV
Mazzika TV, also known as Mazzika (مزيكا), is an Egyptian music television channel that has broadcast Arabic pop video clips and concerts since 2003, owned by Alam El Phan.
Melhem Barakat
Melhem Barakat (ملحم بركات) was a Lebanese singer, songwriter, and composer, born in 1945, known for "Habibi Enta" and for singing only in colloquial Lebanese Arabic.
Melody Music
Melody Music (ميلودي ميوزيك) is an Egyptian media group founded in August 2003 around the satellite music channels Melody and Mazzika, with radio, production, and artist management arms.
Mohamed Hamaki
Mohamed Hamaki (محمد حماقي) is an Egyptian pop singer, born in Cairo in 1975, who won the 2010 MTV Europe Music Award as Best Arabia Act.
Mohamed Mounir
Mohamed Mounir (محمد منير), born in Aswan in 1954, is an Egyptian Nubian singer and actor known as "The King", whose "Ezzay" became an anthem of Egypt's 2011 revolution.
Mohamed Rushdy
Mohamed Rushdy (محمد رشدي), born Mohamed Abdel Rahman El-Raghy, was an Egyptian folk and shaabi singer (1928–2005) famed for "عدوية" and his radio epic "أدهم الشرقاوي".
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Mohammed Abdel Wahab (محمد عبد الوهاب) was an Egyptian singer, composer, and actor, born in Cairo in 1902, who modernized Arabic song and composed for Umm Kulthum.
Mostafa Amar
Mostafa Amar, also known as Moustafa Amar (مصطفى قمر), is an Egyptian singer, composer, and actor born in 1966 in Alexandria, a central figure of 1990s jeel-pop.