Raï (Arabic: الراي) is an Algerian musical genre, born in its traditional form at the beginning of the 20th century in the Oranie region (Oran, Sidi-bel-Abbès and Aïn Témouchent)5. The music was modernized in the 1970s and internationalized in the 1990s. In 2022, raï was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as a folk song of Algeria.