Maamoun's Prize

Maamoun did it!

Maamoun Elmeleegy (a very good friend of mine) has won the best video clip in the 2005 Oscar Video Clip Festival in Cairo. The song's video clip (needs DivX codec) was the first product of the promising director Ayman Afifi. The song is called "Fe Elshaware3" which means "In the streets", and the video was taken in the streets of Cairo, about an artist walking in the streets watching people's faces, their facial expressions, misery, and desperation, and then he translates all of these emotions into some nice portraits and paintings.
The clip is nice and simple but without some shaking models :( lol, and actually that was the real reason why it was rejected and refused to be broadcasted by some popular satellite channels like "Mazzika" and the reason Maamoun was told by channel's officials "It doesn't go with the channel's Policy!" (Policy? no comment). The song idea and words (written by: Ahmad Qadry) came from the misery and suffering of the casual Egyptian citizen, and that was very well reflected in the clip, which was the direct reason to be rejected by Egyptian public channels! Only "Dream" channel accepted the clip, and they broadcasted it almost daily just before the a very well know talk show "Al3ashera masa2an". Fe Elshaware3's music was composed by Maamoun, Maamoun composed many songs, three of them were performed by Azza Balbaa.
Maamoun is originally an architect who owns one of the nicest galleries ever called "Fantasy". If you would like to know more about Maamoun and his music you can visit his site maamoun.net.