Suggested repertoire

Popular Arab

(1930s to present)

• Ilham al-Madfa`i (Iraq)
• Mohamed Mounir (Egypt)
• Khaled (Algeria)
• Marcel Khalife (Lebanon) http://www.marcelkhalife.com/
• Fairuz
• Umm Kulthum
• Nazem al-Ghazali
• Abdel Halim Hafez
• Dalida Salma ya Salama
• Ziad Rahbani, Shu hal Eyyam
• Farid al-Atrash, Hibbina
• Emil Zrihan song
• Fayza Ahmed, Yamma al-amar `albab
• M. Kandeel, Samah

Mona:

Saaltak Habibi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ikV4bquh8&feature=related

Kina Nitlaa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURLvDREgxk

Al Bosta http://www.ilike.com/artist/Fairuz/track/Al+bosta

Ah We Noss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVC4bcoLV3Q&feature=related

Traditional Arab

(turath, pre-1930s)

(see: http://www.alsiadi.com )

• Aleppan qudud
• Sayyid Darwish
• Muwashshahat
• Yama al-amar al-bab
• Moroccan Ala
• Tunisian Ma'luf
• Gulf Arab
• Zuruni
• Chamce Alachia
• Ya Mal el-Sham

Inshad Dini

• Shaykh el-Helbawy repertoire
• Mohamed Mounir's Sufi album

• Emil Zrihan (Moroccan Arab Jewish)