Arabesk trilogy, a sequence of alternate history novels by the British author Jon Courtenay Grimwood
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Trained in Turkish classical music, she has achieved considerable popular success in the Arabesk genre.
In 2006, Murathan Mungan supervised the production of a music album by Turkish arabesk singer Müslüm Gürses, featuring cover versions of popular songs such as Alexandra Leaving by Leonard Cohen, Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan, and I'm Deranged by David Bowie, all of which were selected by Mungan.
In June 2009, at the "Almancı Festivali" in İstanbul, he put on stage the Brechtian musical Gazino Arabesk set in Kreuzberg and in which Turkish arabesk songs were performed with German lyrics, and he was inspired by hip hop.