Arabian nights ...

The depth of tenderness, the almost reverential nuance to the romance in arab songs may be an acquired taste but for me it's always been magic and now years after that sojourn in Dubai, I still love going back to some of these songs at which point you know it's time to share/bookmark online for some time when you need to find it fast :)

For instance here's
Aline Khalaf's Howelt Ansak intensely and hauntingly painting the shadows of memory into being ...

Or Marwan Khoury and Carol Samaha negotiating the tricky roads between breakup and lifelong love together

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg9Zg03CxDQ&feature=related

Here's Fadl Shakr and Yara finding just how much togetherness there is in a song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1f5xeXgTOg&mode=related&search=

And an impromptu talk show duet ... starring the incomparable Souad Massi

And then there's the all too difficult fluid emotional spaces between fun and happiness that goes beyond poetry beyond words even beyond memory to leave you feeling a bit more human than usual ... sorry I love this song :) Strictly speaking the song below is not Arabic but rather a mix of Farsi (Iranian) and Arabic ... but the singer Cheb Khaled is one of it's more beloved artists from Algeria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVIJdh6W348

and one of those shakira collaborations this time with Egypt's beloved son Amr Diab

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ir5_ABs-Q


And this song, I'm not quite sure why I like it other than that indefinable something called chemistry between the singers that make it so compelling (to me I mean)

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=7504281

And in no particular some other singers that seem to conjure up visions of sensuous women (be warned some of them are ridiculously hot! hot! hot!) languidly doing the dance of seven veils, of stories swirling in sandstorms of loss and hope and just plain old fashioned here's a party let's rock the casbah stuff ... Doesn't hurt that the divas are drop dead gorgeous and the men just your above average hunks but with those special eyes that speak the special language of hearts that seem to melt a certain type of women :)

Madeline Matar

Nancy Ajram

Elissa ... another version

Sherine

Samira Said

Myriam Faris

Nawal El Zoghbi


Adam's The tears have faded from my eyes ... Do me a favor if you have an Arabic friend ask them to help you understand the lyrics, you'll never fall in love the same way again!

Amr Diab

Tamer Hosny

Ragheb Alama

Wael Kfoury

and one for the road

by Natacha AtlasThis one's exquisite ...