FILE - This Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, file photo shows Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat along with protesters from Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement shouting in front of City Hall in ...

A Moroccan rapper was charged on Friday with insulting public authorities in a song that was posted on YouTube, at the start of a trial criticised by his supporters as a new attempt to muzzle an ...

— King Mohammed VI of Morocco thanked a Jewish composer from Casablanca who had written a song in the monarch’s honor. Albert Cohen, a novelist, composer and singer, earlier this week shared on ...

Penny Lane’s Moroccan dream gets the full song treatment in the latest offering from the upcoming Almost Famous musical. The tender tune is led by Solea Pfeiffer, who plays Penny in the upcoming ...

In 1966, British singer and song-writer Graham Nash visited Morocco. He took the train from Casablanca to Marrakesh and ended up writing a song about it. His track became a WoodStuck hit in the 70s.

Chris Silver, writing on Jewish Morocco, shares a rare recording in this post. It's a song by Haim Abitbol, from the time when Moroccan Jews performed popular music. Global Voices stands out as one of ...

The third Arab song festival will be held in Casablanca this March 15-17, Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) reported. The festival, sponsored by the Moroccan musicians union, features a contest of the best ...

For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone. By Aida Alami TANGIER, Morocco — They sang to put their ...

A rap song deemed critical of the king, external has sparked debate and anger in Morocco on the eve of the trial of one of its singers. Mohamed Mounir, widely known as Gnawi, was arrested at the start ...