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In this episode, we sit down with Ayman Massoud, keyboardist, co-founder and band manager of Massar Egbari, the Alexandria band that has spent twenty years building its own sound out of Mohamed Mounir and Ziad Rahbani as much as Dire Straits and Pink Floyd, largely outside the commercial system that shapes most Egyptian music. Launched in 2005, the band waited eight years for its first album and has released five since, most recently «مابقتش أخاف» (2025). Massar Egbari has close to 750,000 followers on Spotify, has been named best band at the Middle East Music Awards, scored the film…
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