Maamoun Elmeleegy's new song.

Ne7lam Sawa

Ma2moun Elmeleegy has recorded a new song and a video clip called Ne7lam Sawa. I was at his gallery with a friend of mine (Mahmoud Youssef) on the 25^th of Dec 2005, and Ma2moun was telling us about a song that he made the music for, which is talking about friendship between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian society as a whole.
So Mahmoud suggested that Ma2moun can compose it and work on its video clip so it can be showed on satellite channels by the 5th and 7th of January, because he noticed that both feasts (Bairam & Christmas) are coming together in the same time. Actually it was a nice observation. So Ma2moun called the composer on phone, and played the song on the phone for him, and the composer did a lot of efforts to finish it quickly. Then Ma2moun thought of the idea of the video clip (Maamoun likes to direct his video clips:) and he thought of making it a story of two old school friends, a Muslim and a Christian, and the video clip begins with them sitting together and then flashing back to their school memories.
Ma2moun got introduced by that time by Christian young guys that own a video filming and editing company, so he asked them if they can do the video clip without charges because there is a kind of a national value in the words of this song. The guys accepted, and actually they did a very good job, the made a very nice video clip and in an extremely short time, and Ma2moun managed to send it to TV channels before the feasts by 2 days.
The nice thing about this video clip is that almost half of the crew are Muslims, and the other half are Christians, and all of them did this song for free, and just trying to send a nice value and message, that there are no differences between Muslims and Christians in Egypt,they are all Egyptians.

Here are some pics that were taken at Ma2amoun's gallery (Fantasy) last week.