From roller-skating to bungee jumping, non-traditional sports are on the rise in the Black and brown communities. Okayplayer speaks to T.I, Jessie Reyez, and more about the phenomenon. From ...

The first compilation from the Habibi Funk label sees unreleased and rare music from Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia covering everything from Arabic zouk, Algerian coladera and ...

Attarazat Addahabia, with Abdelakabir Faradjallah, third from right. (Courtesy of Habibi Funk) Abdelakabir Faradjallah was destined to become an artist. Born in Casablanca’s Benjdia neighborhood in ...

In London’s Jazz Cafe, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf Leila Wleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of anticipation. Fragments of light are reflecting off the Camden venue’s ...

Based in Berlin, the label Habibi Funk took its name from an online comment about one of its mixes. "Habibi" is actually the Arabic word for "darling," which seems fitting for a company intent on ...

"I didn't make it to homecoming last year so i made a list off all the songs that reminded me of my time in college in ATL (Clark Atlanta). The end result was this mix. Over a hour long and I'm pretty ...

The Habibi Funk label focuses on reissuing Arab disco, funk, soul and electronic records from across the decades. Habibi Funk DJ sets jump between rare 45 inch records from the Arab disapora, with ...

Following this week's terrible disaster in Beirut, one of our favourite reissue labels Habibi Funk have put together a compilation of artists from the city, which is now available on Bandcamp with 100 ...

On the closing evening of the Goethe Institut’s Geniale Dilletanten in Tunis (January 20-28), the expo’s downtown venue was packed for a DJ set by Habibi Funk. Berlin-based Jannis Stürtz, co-founder ...

Here's a short note from Jannis himself: "Earlier this month I was in North Africa for another digging trip and ended up finding quite some records I didn’t know before or I had no copy of so I felt ...