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
• Kina Nitlaa
• Nancy Ajram, Ah We Noss

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)

Specifics

• Zuruni
• Mawwal (Tony)
• Ala instrumental (bughya) or Ottoman instrumental (samai) (Hadi)
• Kurdish (Hooshyar)
• Turkish (Vahapcan)
• Hebrew (Ben)
• Armenian? (see Scott's book)
• Berber
• Taqasim