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For Weeks, the Top Artist on SoundCloud Was an Icon of the Arab Spring
If SoundCloud, as a platform, has become synonymous with any genre of music, it’s undoubtedly rap. In any given week, a peek at the site’s top 50 songs shows at least 90 percent to be hip-hop. From the howlingly cartoonish to the despondently evil, from rote invocations...
The Artist of the Revolution: Hamza Namira, the Arab Spring, and the Dream of a Free Egypt
Namira’s path to stardom preceded the events of the Arab Spring by many years. He was born in Saudi Arabia in 1980, where his father, an Egyptian Muslim, worked as a doctor and an amateur musician..
Exclusive interview: 'I'm not a politician or activist'
The New Arab spoke to renowned Egyptian artist Hamza Namira, an icon in the Arab World whose song, "Issmy masr", My name is Egypt, was a national hit.
