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Majed Al Mohandis
Majed Al Mohandis, also known as Majid Al Mohandis (ماجد المهندس), is an Iraqi-Saudi Khaleeji pop singer and composer, active since 1991 and signed to Rotana since 2005.
Majed Al-Esa
Majed Al-Esa (ماجد العيسى), also known as Majid Al-Esa, is a Saudi music producer and video director from Riyadh whose viral Khaleeji videos "Hwages" (2016) and "Barbs" made him a household name across the Middle East.
Majid Entezami
Majid Entezami (مجید انتظامی), born 1948 in Tehran, is an Iranian composer and oboist who has scored more than 80 films and holds the record five Crystal Simorgh awards for film score.
maNga (group)
maNga is a Turkish alternative rock band formed in 2001 in Ankara, known for blending rock, rap, and electronica with Anatolian melodies and for Eurovision 2010.
Manoto
Manoto, also known as Manoto TV (من‌وتو), is a London-based Persian-language satellite channel launched in 2010 by Kayvan and Marjan Abbasi, known for entertainment and talent shows reaching Iran and the diaspora.
Mansour
Mansour (منصور), the stage name of Mansour Jafari, is an Iranian pop singer and composer based in Southern California, best known for the 2002 album Divooneh.
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.
Marjan (musician)
Marjan, born Shahla Safi Zamir, was an Iranian pop singer and actress famous for the 1977 disco hit "Kavir-e Del" who died in exile in Los Angeles in 2020.
Masoud Sadeghloo
Masoud Sadeghloo (مسعود صادقلو) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Tehran whose singles have drawn hundreds of millions of streams since the mid-2010s.
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.
Mawwal
Mawwal (موال) is an improvised, non-metric solo vocal genre of Arab music, sung in colloquial Arabic, that traditionally opens a song and is especially prominent in Gulf ṣawt music.
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.
Mazyar Fallahi
Mazyar Fallahi (مازیار فلاحی) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and film score composer born in Tehran, nicknamed "Aghaye Ehsas" (Mr. Feeling) for his melancholic romantic ballads.
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.
Mehrad Hidden
Mehrad Hidden (مهراد هیدن) is the stage name of Mehrad Mostofi Rad, an Iranian rapper and singer from Tehran, best known as a founding member of Zedbazi.
Mehter
Mehter is the Ottoman military band tradition of the Janissary corps, known in the West as Janissary music, abolished in 1826 and revived in the 20th century.
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.
Mert Demir (musician)
Mert Demir, born 1993 in Istanbul, is a Turkish singer and songwriter whose 2022 duet "Antidepresan" with Mabel Matiz set a Spotify Turkey streaming record.
Mert Yazıcıoğlu
Mert Yazıcıoğlu (born 1993 in Istanbul) is a Turkish screen actor known for Karagül, Netflix's Love 101, and the historical series Kuruluş Orhan.
Mesut İktu
Mesut İktu (1947–2026) was a Turkish baritone opera singer, administrator, and educator, known for the title role in Turkey's first staged Don Giovanni and for leading the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
Mizmar
The mizmar (مزمار), also called surnay, is a loud double-reed wooden wind pipe that leads Gulf folk music, above all the African-derived liwa dance genre.
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".
Mohammad Abdo
Mohammad Abdo (محمد عبده), also written Mohammed Abdo or Mohammad Abdu, is a Saudi Khaleeji singer born in 1949, titled "Fannan al-Arab" (Artist of the Arabs) since the 1980s.
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.
Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh
Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh (محسن ابراهیم‌زاده) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and composer who became publicly visible in the 2010s through digital releases and licensed concerts in Iran.
Mohsen Sharifian
Mohsen Sharifian (محسن شریفیان), born c. 1976 in Bushehr, is an Iranian musician and composer considered a master of the ney-anban bagpipe; he founded the Lian group in 1993.