Every three years we hear from Magdy Saad "Madgy Sa3d"with a song that he sings about a subject he feels and lives. While he does not get the big name recognition the big concert deals, that allows him to remain close home. And this he is able to tell the stories of the people living on the margin of history, granted there are a lot of those anywhere you look.
El Ghalaba, "The Less Fortunate", is a dramatic song about a very social issue, they very issue that is destabilizing countries right now. The Egyptian star has only released one album that was quite good. I am glad Magdy and not someone else did this song, I would hate to see some wealthy Arab singer who lives in hotels and dines and wines around town to deliver this song. Not only it would have been a meaningless song, but it will also be insulting tio many of us.
The song is by Magdy Saad, and the clip is from the 2008 Al Safa'h, "the serial killer" about a man who gross up in troubled circumstances and goes down one wrong path after another. The movie was too dark for me, but this kind of movies do not get made in Arabia, so it was a good change to see a twisted dark movie about the mind of a criminal.
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