Dive into the rise of audiocassettes and working class music, a combination that outsold any other music genre in 1970s Egypt through the likes of Ahmed Adaweya and Sheikh Imam.

Keyboardist Jantra, unknown in Khartoum, doesn’t even know his album is out. Without a telephone, he continues his search for inspiration in Sudan, combining traditional music and celestial melodies. The latest craziness from the Ostinato label.

The Egyptian singer and president embodied the era of Pan-Arab unity, singing their nation through war and revolution, leaving a legacy unmatched by any other Arab artist or politician.

The Egyptian songstress invites PAM on her sailboat towards the future.

Nancy Mounir is bringing music back to life in her Cairo studio, exploring the tuning systems outside of the Arabic mainstream used by Egyptian artists in the 1920s for a new composition that reimagines the sounds that were uninvited to the Congress of Arab Music.