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Hend El Taher

Hend El Taher holds an MA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo and a diploma in Islamic Shari'a from the Higher Institute for Islamic Studies. She currently teaches at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport and previously taught at the British University in Egypt.

New Media, New Audiences: Charting the Rise of Spiritual and Religious Music in Egypt

Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/HT18NMNA Abstract Music is the language that everyone understands. As an element of culture, music evolved with the development of civilizations. Some of the religious subgroups produced a unique type of music that echoed in the Arabian Peninsula as well as nearby civilizations, such as Andalusia …

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