Services for the elderly are going high tech. What does that entail . And the controversial music from egypt streets that wont be silenced. The arab spring arrived in egypt in january 2011 with protests erupting across the country. Tens of thousands of mainly young people gathered on tyree a square in cairo to demonstrate against the autocratic regime of hosni mubarak, eventually forcing him from power to day 11 years later, the country is still led by an authoritarian president abdel fat. Ill cc democracy and freedom of expression are under threat and artists face increasing censorship. I am a lot of jose. Uh huh. We should. Oh, musician alena was working in the studio with his produce and musta. Theyve been collaborating for 9 years. They both prefer working at night. Alena means father of the night in arabic. His musical genre is not rug a nurse, a uniquely egyptian blend of funk. Techno and rap. Lou louis the music helps me forget all my worries. We sing about what we experience on
A massive image over shadow been asia ma bothered them into the go debt. Because his lyrics touch on subjects like drugs and women in recent months has been banned from playing live concerts by egypt, powerful state sponsored Musicians Syndicate musicians must be registered with it to perform commercially. But them horrible. Slocum, i feel, paralyzed me. A band is a disaster, and a bicycle mold or de la mo, could be, should many, they should have talked to me and told me what im doing wrong. And what i can do to change it from them hooked them the saw different worlds collide in egypt. Music scene, on the one hand, theres the Musicians Syndicate which decides who can perform and who cant. On the other, there are the Young Artists who usually come from rough neighborhoods in cairo and alexandria. Thats where a mock raga not originated spreading from the street some 15 years ago to the mainstream. He to day muff rog, not echoes throughout the city. The 30 year old activist is on her way