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Habibi Funk is unearthing rare Arabic grooves for a new generation of fans
From Libyan reggae to Moroccan rock and Sudanese jazz, the Berlin-based label keeps on discovering hidden musical gems
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‘Close your eyes and lose yourself’: the Brighton community reviving mehfil culture
The centuries-old South Asian classical tradition is finding a new home giving musicians an intimate space to perform to diverse audiences
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From Palestine to Sudan, the sounds of Shubbak grapple with a world in turmoil
Musicians at the London-based cultural festival respond to themes of war and violence with humanity, unity and imagination
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‘Every performance is treated as my last’: Aakash Odedra on his lifelong relationship with dance
The dancer speaks about his latest production, Songs of the Bulbul, based on the Sufi poem of the captured bird
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Recipes from an Iranian prison: ‘If there is one book that shows the power of words, it’s this one’
Sepideh Gholian’s The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a memoir-cum-cookbook from the Iranian activist held in the country’s notorious jail
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When we lose parents and grandparents, it’s up to us to continue their stories
In the face of familial loss, I plotted out what little of the family history I knew and found myself filling in the gaps with my imagination
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Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali are reigniting a centuries-old musical tradition
After a recording hiatus of more than 20 years, the nephews and students of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan have released a new album and are ready to take their family’s artistic heritage to new heights
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The best of Turkish psychedelia, from Selda to Derya Yıldırım
Blending experimental rock, funk and electronica with traditional instrumentation and Anatolian folk melodies, this genre has been pushing boundaries for more than half a century
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‘New artists need to take up the mantle now’: inside the west London scene that pioneered British Muslim hip-hop
In the late 1980s a group of friends in Ladbroke Grove began combining the teachings of Islam with rap lyricism to birth an entirely new style
