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The company's consumer retail web site is considered to be "The World's biggest on-line source for Arabic Music". In 2007 the company launched the first legal Arabic music digital service, MAQAM MP3, and the first online Arabic music radio/streaming service. The company produces the nationally
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MAQAM states that as an organization it has "a mission to preserve and promote Arabic and Middle
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that so far has only been available in Asia. Also, as of 2015, the reference to a Madrid office on their web site was quietly removed without an announcement and replaced with a Las Vegas one.
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for blocked web sites, local emergency phone numbers, blood donation information and sites throughout Egypt, and recorded phone calls from citizens in Egypt. MAQAM continued to report on the
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and culture lovers, later becoming a division of 3B Media Inc. "MAQAM" is an Arabic word meaning a position of high esteem. It also refers to a
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