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  • Mahraganat, often known as "electro-shaabi", or popular electro, relies heavily on computer-generated and synthesised beats, and has a wide reach. Some purists in socially conservative Egypt -- a cultural powerhouse in the Arab world -- view its blunt lyrics tackling topics including love, power and money as overstepping moral boundaries.