Ramy Essam

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Ramy Essam at the Rudolstadt Festival 2018

Ramy Essam ( Arabic رامي عصام, DMG Rāmī ʿAṣṣām , [ˈɾɑːmi ʕeˈsˤɑːm] ; * 1987 in al-Mansura ) is an Egyptian musician. He is best known for his appearances in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt .

Life

Ramy Essam grew up in the north Egyptian city of al-Mansura. He studied engineering and founded the folk band Mashakel in 2009 , whose songs dealt with everyday life in Egypt and the problems under Husni Mubarak's government.

Ramy Essam in May 2011

When thousands of demonstrators against Mubarak's regime gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo in January 2011, Essam spontaneously appeared at one of the rallies. His song Irhal  /إرحل / Irḥal  / ' Get out !', Which Mubarak asked to resign, gained great popularity among demonstrators. It became internationally known through YouTube and is known as the Anthem of the Revolution. When the Egyptian army forcibly evacuated the square on March 9, Essam was arrested and tortured.

In July 2011 Ramy Essam performed at the Barbican Center in London . He was involved in the 2013 cinema documentary The Square by Jehane Noujaim , which was shown at the 64th Berlinale in 2014 .

Since 2014 he has lived in Sweden and Finland through the mediation of the aid organizations ICORN and Artists At Risk . In March 2018, following the release of his music video Balaha , in which Ramy openly criticizes Essam as-Sisi , the video's director, Shady Habash , was arrested in Egypt. Habash died on May 1, 2020 in Tura Prison in Cairo.

Publications

  • Introducing Ramy Essam: Revolution Erupts (2013)
Contributions to compilations
  • The Rough Guide to Arabic Revolution (2013)
  • Songs from a Stolen Spring (2014)

Awards

In 2011, the human rights organization Freemuse presented Ramy Essam with the Freemuse Award for musicians who campaign for the right to freedom of expression.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Freemuse: Egyptian singer Ramy Essam is Award winner 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 28, 2011 ; Retrieved October 25, 2011 .
  2. ^ Mark Levine: Ramy Essam Taps Into People Power. (No longer available online.) In: Rolling Stone . May 1, 2011, archived from the original on March 22, 2013 ; Retrieved October 25, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Mark LeVine: From protest songs to revolutionary anthems. In: Al Jazeera . July 14, 2011, accessed October 25, 2011 .
  4. ^ Dorian Lynskey: Ramy Essam - the voice of the Egyptian uprising. In: The Guardian . July 19, 2011, accessed October 25, 2011 .
  5. ^ Reza Sayah: Pro-democracy activists allege torture by Egyptian soldiers. In: cnn.com . March 18, 2011, accessed October 25, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Ehrhardt: Morphine for Egypt. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 15, 2011, accessed October 25, 2011 .
  7. ↑ A Night in Tahrir Square. Retrieved October 25, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Al Midan in the Berlinale film archive (PDF)
  9. ^ Ramy Essam's Tahrir & Beyond Commemorates The Anniversary Of Egypt's January 25 Revolution. In: BroadwayWorld. January 3, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Egyptian Filmmaker and Photographer Jailed for a Music Video Dies in Prison , PEN America , May 2, 2020. Accessed May 5, 2020.
  11. ^ The Rough Guide to Arabic Revolution , accessed May 5, 2020.
  12. ↑ Songs from a Stolen Spring , accessed May 5, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Essam, Ramy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES رامي عصام (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH al-Mansura