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Nearly a century after his untimely death, the voice of Sayed Darwish still reverberates across Egypt in the verses of the national anthem he composed, Belady, Belady (My Homeland, My Homeland, 1923), as well as the countless songs that helped define a modern Egyptian identity. This year, the country chose to honor him by dedicating an annual national day to Egyptian music on 15 September. Egyptian Music Day, inaugurated by the Ministry of Culture and proposed by the National Centre…
