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Hi folks,
For those of you who enjoy listening to traditional Arabic music, you're welcome to use my tags:

arabic

and

arabic pop

The tag arabic contains all the streamable folk & classical arabic artists I've found so far at last.fm and the tag arabic pop contains the more contemporary sounds.

Arabic folk & classical
Abaji
Abdel Ali Slimani
Abdel Halim Hafez
Abdy
Akli D
Ali Hassan Kuban
Amr Diab and Cheb Khaled
Anouar Brahem
Anouar Brahem Trio
Anoushka
Bellemou
Cairo Caravan
Cheb Balowski
Cheb Bilal
Cheb Hasni
Cheb Kader
Cheb Khaled
Cheb Khaled & Chaba Zahouania
Cheb Khaled & Cheba Zahouania
Cheb Mami
Cheb Mami & Cheb Khaled
Cheb Tarik
Cheb Youcef
Cheba Nouria
Cheikha Remitti
Cheikha Rimitti
Dahfer Youssef
Dancing To A Different Drum
Dhafer Youssef
Dinletir
DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Djamel Ben Yelles
Djamel Benyelles
Fadela & Sahraoui
Faudel
Galactic Caravan
Gamal Gommaa
George Wassouf
Gnawa Diffusion
Hamid Baroudi
Hamza El Din
Hanine y Son Cubano
Hasna
Hassan Hakmoun
Hicham Chami
Hisham Abbas
Hoba Hoba Spirit
Hossam Ramzy
Idir
Ihab Tawfik
Jamshied Sharifi & Hassan Hakmoun
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain
Jomed
Kadda Cherif Hadria
Khaled
Khaled & Cheb Mami
Khaled Aggag
Khalifa Ould Eide & Dimi Mint Abba
Lili Boniche
Majid Bekkas
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania with Pharoah Sanders
Matoub Lounès
Maya Nasri
Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Naab
Omar Bashir
Oojami
Oum Kalsoum
Paul Dinletir
Rachid Taha
Rachid Taha, Khaled & Faudel
Radio Tarifa
Raïna Raï
Randy Weston
Rasha
Salamat
Sawt El Atlas
Sharkiat
Simon Shaheen
Simon Shaheen & Qantara
Soliman Gamil
Souad Massi
Suhaila Salimpour
The Music Of Islam
The Music of Islam Vol 1
The Music of Islam Vol 2
The Music of Islam Vol 3
The Music of Islam Vol 4
The Music Of Islam Vol 5
The Music of Islam Vol 7
The Music of Islam Vol 8
The Music of Islam Vol 11
The Music of Islam Vol 12
Turbo Tabla
Wael Kfoury
Warda
Youcef
Zain Bhikha
Ziad Rahbani

Arabic Pop
Alabina
Amr Diab
Dania
Diana Haddad
Elissa
Fairouz
Fairuz
Hakim
Hamid El Shaeri
Khaled
Latifa
Nancy Ajram
Nanjwa Karam
Natacha Atlas
Nawal Al Zoghbi
Nawal Al Zoughbi
Ragheb Alama
Samira Said



More arabic music can be found in these groups:

African Music
Arabic Music
Belly Dance
Desert Blues
Eastern Invasion
Oud
Rai

Excellent:
Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401, a User's Manual | 4A
The Ascent of Everest - How Lonely Sits the City
Mono & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer Mass Murder Refrain
Bert Jansch - Black Swan
Woven Hand - Mosaic
Sparrows Swarm and Sing - O Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me
Maserati - Inventions For The New Season
Magyar Posse - Random Avenger
Anouar Brahem Trio - Le Voyage De Sahar
OM - Conference of the Birds
Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau - Metheny Mehldau
Isis - In The Abscence Of Truth
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Lontano
Keith Jarrett - Carnegie Hall Concert
Eric Truffaz - Face A Face
Issei Igarashi - Free Drops
Tenhi - Airut:Aamujen
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem
Marsen Jules - Les Fluers
Jakob - Solace

Good:
Converge - No Heroes
you.may.die.in.the.desert - Bears In The Yukon
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - S/t
Andrew Hill - Pax
Peeping Tom - s/t
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Mono - You Are There
Tim Finn - Imaginary Kingdom
Mark Feldman - What Exit
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood - Outlouder
Trio Beyond - Saudades
Al Di Meola - Consequence Of Chaos
OOIOO - Taiga
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir
Boris - Pink
Joe Satriani - Super Colossal
Katalena - Kmečka Ohcet
Kayo Dot /Bloody Panda - split
Max Richter - Songs From Before
Placebo - Meds
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Journey To The Centre Of The Egg
Terje Rypdal - Vossabrygg
The Mars Volta - Amputechre
Buckethead - Crime Slunk Scene
Tool - 10.000 Days
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

Average:
Built to Spill - You In Reverse
Marty Friedman - Loudspeaker

Not yet listened thoroughly:
DJ Shadow - Outsider
Bob Dylan - Moder Times
Tom Waits - Orphans Brawlers
Sun O))) Boris - Altar
Buckethead - The Elephant's Man Alarm Clock
Kaada - Music For Moviebikers
sunn O)))/Boris - Altar
The Melvins - Senile Animal
Ali Farka Touré - Savane
Nick Oliveiri And Mondo Generator - Dead Planet
James Dean Bradfield - The Great Western
Gotan Project - Lunaticó
Mouth of the Architect - The Ties That Bind
Mouth of the Architect/Kenoma - split
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

Helios - Eingya
Mogwai - Zidane


Not listened and probably won't anyway:
Siddharta - Petrolea
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Incubus - Light Grenades
Stone Sour - Come What(ever)


this is currently just a list. In near future when i'm gonna overcome my current lazyness there will be more info.