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Abyusif • 15 min read
Talking to Phil Battiekh: A Swiss DJ who plays mahraganat
Rami Abadir | The media has often placed mahraganat music in exoticizing narratives
6 June 2017
100Copies • 19 min read
Controversial tunes: D-CAF’s music, 100Copies and mahraganat
Maha ElNabawi | This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of
29 April 2015
Alaa Fifty • 21 min read
Salute the Parrot: Fantasy of the real
Kinda Hassan | "I feel that the musicians and audience are light years ahead of the institutions." Kinda Hassan talks
26 December 2014
feminism • 10 min read
Pop, patriarchy and fake nostalgia
Andeel and Maha ElNabawi | In seeking to make hits, female singers started making songs speaking in the language an insecure man
4 July 2014
8% • 11 min read
Assessing two films on mahragan music
Maha ElNabawi | In my experience, good music documentaries are structured around a question or quest. In “Searching
4 May 2014
Amr 7a7a • 10 min read
You just got mahraganed
Andeel | It’s going to be difficult for you to like mahraganat if you’re the kind of person who asks the waiter
22 September 2013
 
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