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ELITE VOL.1, Issue 56, june 2023
ELITE
VOL.1, Issue 56, june 2023

Mahraganat Music: Origins and Effects

Ahmed Mostafa, Third year – Political Science

Egypt has had a pioneering musical to reconsider the effects of this
artistic experience in the Middle East phenomenon on the Egyptian society.

and the Arab world, especially after the
1919 revolution. Egyptian music began
to express the new Egyptian national

identity that constituted the artistic and
cultural views form the Egyptian
nation’s conscience later on, and

enabled the Egyptian state to benefit
from this artistic experience as a soft
power. On the other hand, no one today

can deny the widespread of Mahraganat
music within Egyptian society, which

has become an artistic culture. Large
segments of the Egyptian people were
fascinated by it with admiration and
listening, without stopping and

wondering about the implications of Mahraganat music began to appear
this culture, which formed a very wide prior to the Egyptian January

and large mass background. This is why revolution, as a response to the social
this article will focus on the and economic issues that are happening
phenomenon of Mahraganat music to in the Egyptian slums.

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