Our #JamOfTheWeek is this brilliant track from one of Iran’s best hip-hop artists, Bahram Nouraei. The track comes from his album “Good Mistake” which, in its entirety, has a sound, vibe, and production quality on par with any of the “pop” rap albums currently at the top of charts across the world with a multitude of extremely catchy beats.

Our ‪#‎JamOfTheWeek‬ comes from Lebanon’s leading MC and rapper El Rass. “Music‬ that causes you to move by its sound and how its challenges your ‪worldview.”

This week our ‪#‎JamOfTheWeek‬ is from a brilliant collaboration between‪#‎Jordan‬’s dynamic poly-genre band ZA’ED NA’ES زائد ناقص (Or “Plus/Minus” in English) and ‪#‎Egyptian‬ ‪#‎vocalist‬ Maii Waleed of Maii and Zeid . We feel the track is a perfect addition to your ‪#‎winterplaylist‬…

Our ‪#‎JamOfTheWeek‬ is a new track from 47SOUL titled “Intro to Shamstep”. With a sound “rooted in Arabic Dabke” and traditional Levantine celebration music thats mixed with synthesizers, drum machines, absurdly catchy guitar rifts, and four vocalists with enough energy to get you through the workweek …you’ve got a concoction for one of the most intriguing, uniquely creative acts independent music has given us in a long, long while.‪#‎Shamstep‬ ‪#‎BiladAlSham‬ ‪#‎47SOUL‬

This week our #JamOfTheWeek comes from Lebanon’s indie heroes, مشروع ليلى Mashrou’ Leila . Their song “Habibi” has been on our playlist all week and we’d be willing to bet that it’ll end up on yours after a listen through or two…

Our ‪#‎JamOfTheWeek‬ has to be the new single just released by Jordan’s own El Morabba3-المربّع titled “El Mokhtalifeen”.

A little while back Jaha Media shot this video of Jordanian-Palestinian rock band Akher Zapheer performing an acoustic version of their song “Bain al Waraq” . Watch their performance and watch, listen, and read about the music of some of the region’s most creative musicians in the “Music” section on jahamedia.org