Nagham Masry

I got this email yesterday:

Invitation for Street Singing

We invite all Egyptians, Nagham Masry Band fans, lovers of Sheik Imam and Fo'ad Nigm's songs, those who love singing, and those who love Egypt, to come to a street evening performance.

Time: Next Thursday, March 2, at 07:00 pm
Place: Tal'at Harb Square, Downtown

Participants:
1- Great poets Fo'ad Nigm and Sayed Higab, and some young poets
2- Sherbini Ahmed and Nagham Masry Band
3- Young singers Fatma Adel and Zainab Fo'ad Nigm

Movement of Writers and Artists for Change invites all Egyptians to participate in the evening performance organized by the movement, in response to the cancellation of a concert that was to be given last Friday, by singer Sherbini Ahmed and his band, Nagham Masry, on the Geneina Theatre, at Al-Azhar Park.

The administration of the Geneina Theatre received, on the day of the concert, a phone call from the Azhar Park management ordering the cancellation of the concert of Nagham Masry on requests from the Cairo Governorate (The Governor's Office).

The cancellation accompanied by the closure of the theatre till unspecific date, was based on the claim that Nagham Masry Band songs include ones inciting hatred of the Egyptian regime.

http://harakamasria.org/node/5082
http://www.naghammasry.com

Sounds fun. Looks like Kifaya and associated movements are still out there, even if you see them on the streets less often these days.

Comments

[Samia]

"The cancellation accompanied by the closure of the theatre till unspecific date, was based on the claim that Nagham Masry Band songs include ones inciting hatred of the Egyptian regime."

This statement hasn't been verified and the government later expressed to journaists and people working at Genaina Theatre that the cancellation has nothing to do with the band. It is well known that this band plays the same songs on government theatres (Opera, Harawi House + many concerts in El Sakia). As usual there have been mis-interpretations by both journalists and kefaya members who chose to kling to what serves their propaganda best.

You can find out more about the issue tonight on Dream TV "3ashera masa2an" program. (It will either be aired tonight or Saturday night)