#darwish
On Sunday the 25th of November 1923, two months after the maestro’s death, The Manchester Guardian Weekly ran a profile on Sayed Darwish, “the national hero who brought Egyptian music into the twentieth century.” Like so many other stories about this great composer it began with a tale of generosity, heavily inspiring this article. One cold December night, a shaggy arbagy horse carriage driver entered a café in Alexandria's Kom El-Dika neighborhood looking for al-Sheikh Sayed Darwish. According to the…
