Posted By BillHeise on March 9, 2009

This week’s Music I Am Listening to This Week comes from the Middle East’s world of pop.

WARNING

Don’t play the first video at work if you or your coworkers (or your boss) are offended by belly dancing or rap. (There is no nudity in the clip, but I wanted to warn you).

WARNING

The video is by Alabina, and is entitled “Last Kiss”:

Here’s a lesser version without the rap remix.

Other Arab videos (click on link to watch)

• Alabina Alabina. I like this remix the best, but Ishtar’s not in this video. Here’s the standard version with the Gypsy Kings where you can see her. (I don’t have a clue why the video is labeled with a different name and a different singer).
• Sibel Can – Yalnizlar Treni Another Arab pop singer with an awesome voice. Read more about her here.
• Tarkan. Kuzu kuzu. It has been pointed out that the guy is not a very good dancer. I don’t watch the video; I’m all about the music. Still. I can’t help wondering what he thinks he’s doing? Nevertheless, he’s huge in Turkey.
• Cheb Mami – Le Rai Cest Chic. This video illustrates one of the problems with listening to music in a foreign langauge: I know they they are not singing “They seek the rice.”
• The video that started me on this track: Sting’s Desert Rose.

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