Comments on: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Arabic Music 2008

By: hazem

hazem — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:04:00 +0000

Tamer hosny’s album was a failure?? Is that a joke? It was the most successful in 2008 and many channels proved this? U need to go fix ur ears or something tamer hosny el kingggggg

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:25:00 +0000

So the woman looks foxy, and the men are primarily musicians. Real progressive there, Kabobfest.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:10:00 +0000

Complete silence and complicity by Kabob for Hamas crimes. I overheard Will say, referring to the Gazans, "Resistance forever. And the people? Let them eat dirt".

By: Madame Mansour

Madame Mansour — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:13:00 +0000

I hate ELISSA. She cannot sing and she has a screwed up mouth from some plastic surgery accent. And she's a whore. A ga7ba for Khaleeji cock.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:08:00 +0000

thanks for this great review but but for Samira said I find her the only arabic singer who can make different music and that what makes her survive till this moment…
thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:15:00 +0000

Yeah I agree Lena (I’m the same anon as right above you.) The only song I like on Nancy’s new album is min ghayri ana.

By: Lena

Lena — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:11:00 +0000

I appreciate the effort in this comphrenehsive Arabic pop music review but I have to disagree almost entirely! For one thing, Nancy Ajram’s latest album is extremely boring. You have to listen to a song a thousand times to tolerate it in the end. Tamer Hosny’s album was amazing so there are the two biggest disagreements. I agree with Ragheb, Amr Diab, and Diana Haddad going down the drain but would like to include Nawal El Zoghby. I don’t know how you judge these cd’s but Nawal actually used to be AMAZING and just like Amr Diab, each following cd is worse than the other.
I also think you should have dedicated a FULL review for Mohammad Hama2i because HE IS AMAZING as well

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:43:00 +0000

I actually really liked a few of Samira Said's songs. Awam keda, Ayam 7ayati, 3ayounak 2oudammi. On Latifa's album, I found only Fil Kam youm elli fatou, sibny shwaya, and ana 3arfa enjoyable. Latifa's previous album was MUCH better.And is it just me or does Nawal El Zoghbi look more like a drag queen every day? Love her music, but her face is terrifying. She used to be so pretty!

By: Oudster

Oudster — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:48:00 +0000

Thanks for the heads up . . . I’ll be sure to check that out

By: Lina

Lina — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:23:00 +0000

This list is encouraging me to put together another one for the alternative Arabic music scene. There is so much happening there lately – Egypt alone has some great bands and an annual massive festival of original music that is not mainstream pop (check out Eftikasat, or Wust El Balad). Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and even Jordan have some really interesting experiments (Sign of Thyme, Lena Chamamyan, Ramallah Underground.. to name some examples). You should check out Eka3, which is a new production and distribution label for alternative music in the Arab world. They’re very new, but hopefully in the coming couple of years we’ll start seeing the fruits of their work.