Our listing of the fifty best Arabic pop songs from the 21st century involves all the things from Algerian rai to Egyptian dance-pop to passionate ballads from Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The songs below might have common roots that return lots of decades, but they also can mirror nowadays’s pop tendencies — numerous do each simultaneously. ???????

Richard Linklater’s 1993 highschool vintage, established at the cusp on the summertime of 1976, was a movie with songs so fantastic and so densely packed that it spawned not one but two soundtrack albums that grew to become complete CaseLogic staples. (The tag line to the 2nd 1: “They Observed Your Stash…Yet again!”) Dazed and BewilderedTo