The links

Sites for everyone

• The Arab classical music society of Chicago. A very nice and useful site from the University of Chicago.
  Site also contains some sheet music.
• Maqam world, which has very nice descriptions and recordings of individual maqams.
• Histoire de la musique Arabe et orientale, in French and Arabic.

Bands, performers, etc...

• Chantal Chamandy, an Egyptian singer with international influences.
• A site for Oussama Rahbani.
• Haytham Safia, a Oud player from Jerusalem.
• Wael Kfouri's official site.
• Amin Sultan's web page
• A very nice page on Ziad Rahbani.
• Farid el-Atrach
• Al-mashriq's section on Umm Kalthoum, no intro necessary!
• George Wassouf (fan club).
• Wael Kfoury has a site... or something like that.
• The Stars of the Oasis, a NY based band.
• Simon Shaheen's site.
• Two artists in Japan with a wonderful page full of resources.
• Assi El Hellani's Web page.
• A page about Marcel Khalife, the Lebanese singer/composer.
• The group Balladina has a web page.
• Roger Bandaly's homepage...
• Rabih al-khawli has his own web page!

Arabic music stores/providers:

• Arab CD store
• Musicrama
• Shamra.com
• Oriental Tunes
• Aladin le musicien.
• La Librairie Arabe
• Music master
• Terhantiri music
• OrientCD
• Rashid Sales
• Aramusik
• Voix de l'Orient is one of the main music publishers in Lebanon.

Radio stations and record labels

• Radio Musicana 24-7 arabic music radio.
• The label Nagam.
• Barraka el Farnatshi a morocan record label.
• American Recording Productions, Armenian and Middle Eastern music.
• Shefa if you want to heal through foreign music.
• Lyrichord's arabic music section.

Audio files (midi, .au, .ra, etc...)

• Mazika.com
• 6arab.com
• Argeeleh palace
• Arabic Music JukeBOX, where you can also buy the music.
• Some more midi files
• Christmas carols sung by Fairouz.
• A very nice site with lots of songs.
• Arabic lyrics from France
• Some music files.
• Abed Hamoud's compilation of Lebanese Songs.
• Marwan's arabic midi site.
• more MIDI files over here.
• A site devoted to Rai music
• Aghani, a new webzine devoted to oriental music from Lebanon.
• This page has many bells and whistles which don't work for me, but also has some songs.

Fairouz

• Here
• Here
• khaled Salem's nice site.
• Al Mashriq's section.

Instruments

• Excellent site for drums and drumming.
• Percussion East, a new store for percussion instruments.
• Check out Lark's extensive collection of Middle Eastern instruments, as well as related articles.
• This site also has instruments for sale.

Arabic/Oriental Dance

General interest

• Oarabs.com, who has a search engine for music and videos.
• Lisa Urkevich, an ethnomusicologist specialized in the music of the Arabian peninsula
• A nice site on arab culture.
• LebJAZZ, a forum for jazz musicians and amateurs in Lebanon.
• A page at Mount Holyoke.
• Turath.org, which has a very nice section on music!
• Le Club du Disque Arabe, one of the prime publishers of arabic music in the world. Especially famous for their "Maitres de la Musique Arabe" series of classics.
• Amisource: An AOL site (that claims to have everything you need about Arabic music) that is good for pop music.
• Al-mashriq, the great site the Lebanon and the Middle East.
• You can also check out my incoherent BLOG which often contains links and discussions on music.