Ramadan evening in El Genaina Theater
From July 26 to August 10
Thursday and Friday 26-27 July
Oumeima El Khalil – Lebanon
A Lebanese singer born in Al-Fakiha village near Baalbak, she lived in an art-loving family, and this helped her to start her artistic career at an early age. Indeed, she started singing at the age of 12 years old. She met the great artist Marcel khalifa who discovered her great talent and introduced her to the public through his “Al Mayadeen” band, and that was a good occasion for Oumeima to venture into the world of singing as it gave her the opportunity to sing as a solo in “Al Mayadeen” band where she showed a high level of professionalism in the domain.. In another phase of her musical career, Oumeima has collaborated with her husband, the musician “Hani Siblini”. As she wanted to go far more from her past, Oumeima released two albums entitled after her name. In these albums, the music varied from being oriental Tarab with a dancing flavor, and melodies mixed with a taste of oriental, blues and jazz, which is reflected in her greatest hits: “Elakh”, “Daret El-Kahwa”, “Olt Bakteblak”, and “Asfour”. “Ya Seidy” is her first song in Egyptian dialect.
Thursday, August 2
Rim Banna – Palestine
Rim Banna the Palestinian singer, lyricist and composer from Nazareth. Her songs are inspired by the Palestinian people’s conscience and sentiments, from their culture, their history and their folklore. The tunes and the music flourish from the soul of the poem and its streams and from the feeling of the word’s rhythm, then come the interweaving of the words and the tune, which produce the beautiful songs, which carry us to the skies of Palestine and from there to the whole Universe. The songs that express the suffering of the Palestinian people, their dreams and visions, their hopes, joys and sorrow. Rim Banna released 11 albums, In 2010 she released her latest album “A Time to Cry. She participated in different Palestinian, Arab and international Festivals, where she represented Palestinian voice, and in the year 2000 Rim Banna received the Award of Palestine.
Friday, August 3
Dina El Wadidi – Egypt
Dina was born in Cairo, Egypt, where she grew up to build a charming personality inspired by the heritage and identity of this city. Dina discovered her passion to music at the age of 19 when she joined “El Warsha Theater Troupe” and where she learned how to sing all kinds of traditional music, starting with “El Sira el Hilalayia” to the Classics of the 1920s. With her tutor Maged Soliman, she discovered the potentials of her voice and how to use it. Dina performed with him in “Habayebna” band where they performed El Sheikh Imam Songs and other folkloric songs. To fine-tune her talent, she participated in many musical workshops and trainings with the award-winning Grammy Award, Fathy Salama and other independent bands in Egypt and beyond. All of that developed her musical background, introduced her to different genres and enriched her musical culture. She, also, learned playing on Arghoul) one of the traditional Egyptian instruments). On 2008, Dina composed her first piece for her song El Haram, and since then, she composes music for lyrics that inspire her to be sung by her or others.
Thursday and Friday, August 9-10
Yasmine Hamdan – Lebanon
Writer, Composer and singer, Yasmine Hamdan was born in Beirut. She formed the indie electro-duo group “Soapkills” along with Zeid Hamdan in 1998. Between 1998 and 2005, Soapkills released 4 albums including a Live recording.. Her encounter in 2005 with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, the electronic music producer who composed Madonna’s album “Music”, results in the birth of Y.A.S. In 2009 she released her album “Arabology” by Universal Music.
In September 2011, Marc Collin and Yasmine met in Marc’s studio, Yasmine brought along some songs she’d written and some of her favorite rare Arabic classics. Their collaboration goes beyond the mere idea of making a remix, not a tribute nor a modernization, but rather a remote memory of a melody.
All concerts start at 9:30 PM
Tickets: 20 EGP (Excluding Park admission)
Al Azhar Park – Salah Salem rd. – Darassa
In Collaboration with “Egyptian Tourist Authority”
