Traditional Music- Middle East

early modern popular arab music/classical music of the muslim world

Iraq

Iraqi maqam

musicians:

Muhammad al-Qubanchi

Saleh and Daoud Al-Kuwaity 

Yusuf omar

salima pasha

Nazem al-Ghazali

Munir Bashir

jamil bashir

Hamid al-Saadi

Afifa Iskandar

amir elsaffar

zakiyya George

nargis shawky

salim zibly

daud akram

Yakub al-imary

izra haron

Hussein al a'dhami

farida al-a'dhami

yusuf za'arur

hanna petros

yusif horesh

salman moshe

salim shibbath

hisqil kassab

ahmad zaydan

rashid al-qundarchi

najm al-shaikhly

hamid al-saadi

saleh shummail

yusif pataw

nuri al-said

salim zivly

Abraham salman

alias shasha

alber alias

ahmed al-zaidan

hassan khaiwka

hashim aal-rejab

farida mohammad ali

abd al-Rahman khader

hamed al-sa'di

filfel gourgy

mulla hasan al-babujachi

rahmat allah shiltagh

Khalil abbaz

rahmain niftar

rubin rajwan

mulla utman al-mawsili

jamil al-Baghdadi

abbas kambir

ali merdan

yusif zaaroor

the Iraqi maqam ensemble

rahi alhaj

souhail kaspar

Smithsonian folkways album:

-Yehezkel Hai El-Beg: Babylonian Biblical Chants

-Iraq: iq'at- traditional rhythmic structure

artists included:

Muhammad h. jrifani

mullah adnan ensemble

sami abdulahad

abdulrazzak talal

Iraqi ensemble for traditional music

maidah nazhat

raid ahmad 

Ibrahim rahim

sublime frequencies album:

-Choubi Choubi! Folk And Pop Songs From Iraq

-artists included in compilation:

Souad Hussein Ensemble

Diyaa Hussein

Amal Khodeir

Mohammed Al Madloul

Bawin

Sadoun Jabir

Samira Al-Amir

Salah Abdel Ghafour

Ahmad Al Indibat

Sajida Obeid

Souad Abdullah

Ja'afar Hassan

arabian peninsula

kahjili(originally from eastern arabia, now popular all over the arab world):

Abu Bakr Salem Belfkih

George Wassouf

Hind

Aziz

Bashar al-Shatti

Nawal El Kuwaitia

Shams

Salim Rashid Suri

Fahad Al Kubaisi

Mehad Hamad

Shamma Hamdan

Amr Diab

Angham

Tamer Hosny

Diana Haddad

Nawal El Zoghbi

Ayman Alatar

Jannat

Saad Lamjarred

Saber Rebai

Thekra

Ahlam

Smithsonian folkways album:

-music of south arabia

-ardah (alardah alnajdiyah)

arab gulf

-fijiri

Saudi arabia

almezmar

yemen

Sana'a song

musicians:

karama mursal

abu bakr salem

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Yemen: Songs from Hadramawt

artists included:

mohammed bin shamikh

Hussein Abdul kadir al kaf

hangil

salim rijab al-tahhan

said 'idha ba hashwan

awadh bi yaslam braik

saleh ba 'issa

yemen: traditional music of the north:

Hussein al-Hijazi

omar yussof traibi

yakya faradj

kassel el akhfach

Hussein lahed

naji barakat

the sisters chaaran

ismail mohammed khoureissan

Mansour el qasaba

Assyrian music:

wadih el safi

adwar mousa

Sargon Gabriel

Ashur Bet Sargis

Janan Sawa

Linda George

Juliana Jendo

Gabriel asaad

levant

dabke

-Lebanese dabke orchestra (1975 album)

-oriental Lebanese band: dabke (album)

Smithsonian folkways album:

-Arabic and Druse Music

-Afif Alvarez Bulos: Afif Bulos Sings Songs of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan

Syria

muwashshah

musicians:

Al-Turath Ensemble

classical Arabic orchestra of aleppo

lebanon

musicians:

oriental Lebanese band

Lebanese dabke orchestra

Wadih El Safi

Melhem Barakat

Zaki Nassif

the Rahbani brothers

Halim Al-Roumi

Majida l-roumi

Philemon Wehbe

sabah

Fairuz

George Wassouf

nasri shamseddine

melhem barakat

marcel khalife

ahmad kaabour

Marwan Mahfouz

tony hanna

Samir hanna

lare daccache

nohad tarabay

alain houwara

youness el eben

rabih el khawli

hadi hazim

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-laments of lebanon- funeral laments of Lebanon (Smithsonian folkways album

-Sawaya Quartet and Chorus: Love Songs of Lebanon

Palestine

founon shaabiya-Palestinian women songs

traditional musicians:

dalal abu amneh

modern popular folk musicians:

mo3em alasm/ala3sm

Bedouin

-Bedouin music of southern sinai(Smithsonian folkways album)

general Arabic music albums:

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Afif Alvarez Bulos: Classical Arabic Music

Israel & palestine:

mizrahit:

jo amar

aris san

tzliley hakerem

daklon

ahuva ozeri

shoshana Damari

avihu medina

Zohar argov

haim moshe

shimi tavori

sami al majribi

Jackie mekaiten

Samir shukri

mujda

ofra haza

sharif

yosi shua

avi sinuani

Michael sinuani

Yoav izhak

gadi levi

Yoav cohen

hana nagar

moti nahari

aharon amram

zion golan

zehava ben

amir Benayoun 

ofer levi

Yishai levi

yizhak levi

eyal golan

rinat bar

zion golan

other Mizrahi and sephardic music:

Smithsonian folkways albums:

-Hagadah: A Yemenite Home Passover

-Ballads, Wedding Songs and Piyyutim of the Sephardic Jews of Tetuan and Tangier, Morocco

artists included:

Alicia benassayag de bendayam

flora benamol

ester kadosh Israel

Solomon siboni

gloria levy:

-Sephardic folk songs (album)