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Hypnotic Arabic Background Music
Audiosocket's Arabic background music collection is a royalty-free set of Middle Eastern and North African tracks for travel films, documentaries and cultural content. It pairs belly dance percussion, a nay taksim and dramatic string lines, on tracks from artists including Hossam Ramzy, Emad Sayyah and Bashir Abdel 'Aal, with hip hop instrumental beats that carry the same exciting, swaggering mood. Nearly every track is instrumental, so it sits cleanly under narration and location sound.
15 tracks58 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
This Arabic background music collection is nearly all instrumental: about 87% of the tracks have no lead vocal, which is why it works as underscore for narration and interviews. The exceptions are Elsewhere by Vast Days and Watts (bckgrnd vocal) by erloom, both of which carry vocals and are labeled that way, so they are easy to skip when you need a clean bed under a voiceover.
World instruments and percussion lead this Middle Eastern collection, with strings and electronic elements behind them and electric guitars and brass on the hip hop side. The clearest traditional example is Taksim (Nay) by Bashir Abdel 'Aal, a taksim being the improvised solo form heard across Arabic and Turkish music, here played on the nay reed flute. Tabbel ya habibi and Li Jamal Cleopatra by Emad Sayyah and THE WORLD IS MY OYSTER by Hossam Ramzy supply the driving belly dance rhythms.
The belly dance tracks and the hip hop beats in this collection share the same exciting, dramatic and swaggering mood tags, so an editor gets two textures for one job from a single search. The core is traditional Middle Eastern belly dance and North African material tagged Egypt and Morocco, joined by hip hop instrumental beats such as Global Gangster by erloom, trailer-style cues and the cross-cultural Arabia Azteca by Ramzy/Carcamo. Use the traditional pieces for on-location and cultural sequences and the beat-driven tracks for montages, transitions and title cards.
Tracks in this Middle Eastern collection average about three minutes fifty seconds, longer than a typical vlog cue, so most documentary scenes will use a section rather than the whole piece. Because almost everything is instrumental and tagged for travel vlog and world themes, the percussion-driven tracks pull down comfortably under narration, while the nay and string-led pieces can run at full level over establishing shots and drone footage.
A documentary or travel film licenses this music by choosing the tier that matches the production: Individual, Indie Film, Small Business or Large Business. A subscription gives unlimited licensing during its term, billed monthly or annually, and every license issued is perpetual for that specific finished film, so the work stays cleared after the subscription ends. All tracks are cleared for commercial use under the license purchased, including film, client work, ads and monetized YouTube.