Arabic Radio Online: Stations from Across the Arab World

Published 24 September 2026

You can listen to Arabic radio online in any browser, with no download and no account: open 72FM, search for a station's name, and press play. Arabic stations stream from the Gulf to the Maghreb, and from diaspora communities in Europe.

News and talk

• BBC Arabic Radio — news and talk from the BBC World Service.
• Radio Asharq with Bloomberg — business and news, from Saudi Arabia.
• Radio Liban Libre — news and local programming from Lebanon.

Music

• SumerFM and Al Rasheed FM — from Iraq; Al Rasheed streams at 320kbps from Baghdad.
• Libyana Hits FM — from Libya.
• lbi Radio and Anghamy — Arabic pop and folk from Lebanon.
• Radio Hits 88.2 — Arabic music from Cairo.
• Aswat FM — Arabic hits from Morocco.
• Rotana FM — from Riyadh.
• Radio Tunisie Culturelle — culture and music from Tunisia.
• NPO Funx Arab — Arabic music from the Netherlands' public broadcaster.

The spread of Arabic radio

Arabic radio runs from Egyptian classics to Gulf pop, Lebanese folk and Maghrebi raï, and Qur'an stations are among the most-listened in the whole directory. Cairo radio, Lebanese radio, Dubai radio and Qur'an radio go further.

Styles you will hear

Arabic music is built on the maqam system of modes, and its classical tradition of tarab — music meant to move the listener — reached its height with Egypt's Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez and Lebanon's Fairuz. Today's stations mix that heritage with pop: Egyptian stars such as Amr Diab, Gulf khaleeji music, Lebanese pop, and raï from Algeria, made famous by Khaled. Many stations switch between Arabic, French and English, especially in Lebanon and the Maghreb.

A route in

1. BBC Arabic Radio, for the news.
2. Radio Liban Libre, for Lebanon.
3. Al Rasheed FM, for Baghdad at 320kbps.

For the city at the heart of Arabic music, Cairo radio online is next.