Egypt's low-tech, high-energy mahraganat music blasted out of the shantytowns to top the global charts on Soundcloud and rack up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube. But one slip-up at a massive concert in Cairo threw the entire genre's future into question.

In this episode: 

We get the story behind some of mahraganat's biggest hits, and its biggest controversy, from Mina Girgis, an Egyptian ethnomusicologist based in California.

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Listen to Bent el Geran / ‘The Neighbors’ Daughter' 

Listen to the "Mahraganat" playlist on Spotify

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Egypt's low-tech, high-energy mahraganat music blasted out of the shantytowns to top the global charts on Soundcloud and rack up hundreds of millions of views on YouTube. But one slip-up at a massive concert in Cairo threw the entire genre's future into question.In this episode: We get the story behind some of mahraganat's biggest hits, and its biggest controversy, from <a href="http://nileproject.org/about/team/" target="_blank">Mina Girgis</a>, an Egyptian ethnomusicologist based in California.For more:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHBaHQau8b4" target="_blank">Listen to Bent el Geran / ‘The Neighbors’ Daughter' </a><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX4qF0846GNk8" target="_blank">Listen to the "Mahraganat" playlist on Spotify</a>Connect with The Take:&nbsp;Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/AJTheTake" target="_blank">@AJTheTake</a>), Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/ajthetake/" target="_blank">@ajthetake</a>) and Facebook (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheTakePod/" target="_blank">@TheTakePod</a>).

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The Take is a daily interview-driven international news podcast hosted by award-winning journalist Malika Bilal. Each episode focuses on conversations with journalists and people directly impacted by the news of the day, offering our listeners the context necessary to understand what's in the headlines.
With millions of global listens, it's clear the conversations we're having on The Take are worth hearing. And critics think so too. The show has won the Online Journalism Awards, the Signal Awards, Lovie Awards, and Anthem Awards, among others.

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