Sheikh Imam
الشيخ إمام
Musician
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Egypt
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Cairo,
Egypt
Egyptian singer and oud player whose collaboration with poet Ahmed Fouad Negm produced decades of politically charged protest song.
Sheikh Imam set Ahmed Fouad Negm's vernacular political poetry to music across a decades-long partnership, together producing a body of protest song that remains influential in Egyptian and wider Arab political culture.
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