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However, the most direct similarity is between the types of music that the Syrian refugees play and a traditional Bedouin genre. In the YouTube video Songs of Syrian Refugees – Documentary | Recording Earth written about in Alex Petropoulos's article in the Guardian, there are two men who sing in a traditional Bedouin genre known as ataba.
"Lm3allem" by Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is the most-viewed Arabic music video with 1 billion views in May 2023. [1] [2] "Ya Lili" by Tunisian singer Balti with Hammouda is the second video to garner over 700 million views. [3] [4] [5] "Happy Happy" by Bahrani singer Hala Al Turk become the first Arabic music video to cross 100 million views.
The Qudud Al-Halabiya (Arabic: قدود حلبية, romanized: Qudūd Ḥalabīya, literally "musical measures of Aleppo") are traditional Syrian songs combining lyrics in Classical Arabic based on the poetry of Al-Andalus, particularly that in muwashshah form, with old religious melodies collected mainly by Aleppine musicians. [1]
With constant emphasis on various music, Madina FM has become one of the mainstream radio broadcasters of Syria. Al-Madina FM is known across the country and is a very popular radio station whose programs are full of music and playlists of energetic songs of popular Syrian singers.
Syria's folk music is for the most part based on the oud, the ney and lap-held drums, with little if any vocal accompaniment. [14] In Nomadic regions, Bedouin music which is based on the Mizmar and Rebab is popular. Modern Syrian music notably contrasts folk music.
WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Top U.S. diplomats were expected to hold Washington's first in-person official meetings with Syria's new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Damascus on ...
One of the most powerful songs of the uprising was “Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar" (“Come on Bashar, Leave”), written in August 2011 by Hama-based Ibrahim Qashoush. The song calls for the ejection of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and his brother, Maher, from office: Oh Bashar, you are not one of us, take Maher and leave us.
[1] [2] [3] Although born in Syria, he immigrated to Egypt at the age of nine with his mother and siblings, where he eventually became one of the most noted figures in 20th-century Arabic music. [1] [4] Al-Atrash embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades, recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies. [5]