Opinion: Mark LeVine on Ramy Essams We dont belong to them and the Egyptian Revolution aje.me/MKn6sk Ramy Essam and other revolutionary artists and activists - visual and written as well as musical - seem to grasp this fact. Thus Essam worked late into the night on January 24 putting the finishing touches on a new song and video SaveFrom.net, Mahnash Min Dol [We dont belong to them], which had 100,000 views within two days of its January 25 release - a faster spread even than Irhal when it was first uploaded on February 3, 2011. A fire and brimstone groove with near brutal vocals by a singer who rose to fame with an acoustic guitar, Mahnash Min Dol is the sonic equivalent of Bob Dylan plugging in with Megadeth instead of The Band. The song is a direct attack not just on Sisi, but on the Brotherhood, military and felool whove together hijacked and ripped apart the revolution. It ends with Essam screaming, as he defiantly throws a molotov cocktail at a brick wall on which images of Sisi, Morsi, and other leaders are stencilled - just like their caricatures have been thousands of times on the graffiti-strewn walls of post-January 25 Cairo.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:26:17 +0000
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