Fame may change many, but Iraqi hip hop artist and Dubai native The Narcicyst, aka Yassin Alsalman, stays true to his beliefs. He raps about racial profiling, giving a candid but all-too-real example in his video for "Phatwa" (from his self-titled album) which films an airport interrogation of

Where did humus come from? Where is Palestine on the map? These seem like simple enough questions, but are New Yorkers worldly enough to answer them? Watch Iraqi-born rapper The Narcicyst wander Times Square with a microphone and some very pressing inquiries. Not sure who DAM is? Click here to

We at Iggy do not branch out that much into the metal world, but the Iraqi band Acrassicauda have made us change our minds. Their video for “Garden of Stones” is pretty righteous, and seeing pics of them live make us want to grow out our hair get tattoos. Maybe you’ll agree.

The Afropop music collective Fool’s Gold is LA’s hottest emerging group. Band members derive their songs from the rhythms of their multicultural roots based in Israel, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Iraq, and of course, LA. Like several of their music videos, “Nadine” features a tropical,

Palestine’s DAM and Iraq’s The Narcicyst brought their hard-hitting, political Arabic hip hop to the streets of New York in these exclusive performances and interviews....

Military troops in conflict zones will make mistakes, but it is important that this is exposed in the media and there is fair punishment Tarun Tejpal:

After getting heady with Agent Fresco's brilliant, eclectic debut A Long Time Listening, it was time for the Reykyavik foursome to loosen up. Turns out, the guys behind some of the most cerebral hardcore music on the planet are actually....quite funny. We chatted with lead singer Arnór Dan Arnarson

There are 165,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. There are 500,000 -700,000 total troops in Kashmir. Is this a problem that sounds over? Arundhati Roy thinks not, and she

Iran might be known for religious modesty and a conservative dress code, but there was no sign of it at the Asian Men’s Bodybuilding and Athletic Physique Championships held in Tehran this week. Men from Asian and Middle Eastern countries including China, Thailand, Iran, and the U.A.E.

Rock in the Muslim World: A Tortured History Music has always had a political tint in the Arab and larger Muslim world, existing simultaneously at the center and the margins of Muslim cultures. The Qur'an itself is, like the Hebrew Bible before it, a quintessentially musical text -- meant to be

Barcelona DJ duo Buffetlibre are the masterminds behind a sick new mix that you'll have to download if you don't wanna fall behind the times. Titled PEACE, it's a whopping download of 180 new songs by everyone from MTV IGGY Faves Gooseflesh to Asobi Seksu to Thao + The Get Down Stay Down to ...

Rebellious music and the internet have actually had a shared history in the region. One of the first acts of overtly political YouTube activism in the region, to my knowledge, occurred in 2006 when the Iranian band Arthimoth managed to upload a copy of the shocking video for their song "Baptize" (a

We first heard Ayah’s golden voice on the single “#Jan25″ that she made with a group of American and and other Canada-based artists in solidarity with the Egyptian people.

Hayvanlar Alemi is a Turkish rock group led by middle school friends, guitarist Ozum Itez and percussionist Isik Sarihan. The quartet formed as a cover band in 1999, but they have grown into a far more original musical beast since then, with influences ranging from West African guitars to Thai pop

He’s rapping his viral track “Take U 2 Da Movies” in a car commercial for Honda Australia. That’s right. He’s got promotions. I’m glad that Bangs, a Sudanese refugee living in Australia via Egypt, is making money and achieving his, well, dream.

The rapper, humanitarian, and cultural melting pot of a man was born in Saudi Arabia to a Syrian family, raised in Washington, DC, and he now lives in Los Angeles. Omar already conquered the Arab hip hop scene with his bilingual, varied, and tightly layered debut SyrianamericanA.

Rock’n’roll has always thrived on a healthy disrespect for authority. But how many rockers make their bones by taking on the murderous police and armed thugs of a desperate dictatorship? How many have stood before camels and horses driven into protesters by men using riding crops to whip their

It's here! In May, we told you that Canada's Raghav had just put out his new single, "So Much," featuring rapper Kardinal Offshall. Yesterday marked the release of the music video accompanying "So Much." In it, Raghav and his friend walk into an ice cream store where Raghav becomes infatuated with

We'll stop posting remixes of Lyrics Born's soulful single "Lies X 3" when ya'll stop remixing him. This time we're shifting the responsibility onto the very capable shoulders of one Trackademicks, head of the Bay Area's forward-thinking Honor Roll Crew. He's only the latest hip hop/electronic

In the world of music, the word “cover” invokes thoughts of bad singing and a fuzzy webcam. Yuna, a folk popper from Malaysia, changed our minds with her smooth,...

President Obama announced the end of the Iraq war at a press conference Friday, saying nearly all U.S. troops will be home for the holidays.

Jessica McDermott shows the flag given to her by the medical unit she served with in Iraq. Jessica and her unit treated 97 soldiers following an attack at a mess hall in Mosul.

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