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electronic music • 14 min read
Exploring Makimakkuk’s multidimension
Maha ElNabawi | Makimakkuk’s music is intensely earworming; her ad-libs burrow so deeply into my psyche
25 July 2019
2018 year enders • 17 min read
Sounds of 2018: Boredom, silence and the music in between
Maha ElNabawi | Maha ElNabawi on the sounds that came out of 2018, puncturing a year of boredom and silence
31 December 2018
Aly Talibab • 10 min read
Band of the week: Aly Talibab and El Manzouma
Maha ElNabawi | The stage lights turn from blue to red as a fog machine engulfs singer Aly Talibab and his band El Manzouma
20 April 2014
Abdel Halim Hafez • 3 min read
Band of the week: Deeb
Maha ElNabawi | Deeb is a rapper for the ages, a Generation-Y musician with his frequency tuned to the music of eras
4 November 2013
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