Samaa’s 11 Edition 'Wraps up Declaring ‘World Represents One Homeland'

written by: Noor EL Hooda foaad

CAIRO, Sept. 30 (SEE)- Samaa International Festival in its 11th edition rounded off on Saturday’s night in a glamorous artistic form on Beaar Youssef’ s stage at Salah Al-Din Palace. People of different backgrounds has come along from all over the world to be united under the umbrella of music that breaks all the borders of color, religion or ethnicity.

Attendees came from Congo, the honorary guest, India, China, Ethiopia, Algeria, Jordan, Sudan, Indonesia, and Yemen who assured participating on their own expenses despite the ongoing war there.

Intesar Abd-elfattah,the president and founder of the festival, has skillfully blended all the cultures’ music colors together in prodigious harmony. One only shivers when he listens to the coptic hymns mingling with Islamic Inshad praising Prophet Mohamed(PBUH) in Arabic and Indonesian while the Chinese play music with the Congo band swaying as the Palestinian calls for the prayer.

Another euphonious tone is when you hear the Yemenis singing in their unique dialect with the Jordanians answering them as a choir.

Among the participants was a Christian Hymns band and an Egyptian Religious Inshad band both made up of men and women. All the bands took part in the closing song ‘World Represents One Homeland’ either with; a piece, background performance or playing instruments of different intertwined and harmonious spheres.

All of this declares to the world a true message of peace uniting humanity symbolized in this theater’s global presentation in which the whole universe appeals to Almighty God hailing Allah,Allah,Allah’

The festival is held once every year over 7 days in September, where bands from all over the world wander sing and perform street shows across Cairo’s theaters from Salah Al-din’s palace and Al-Ghouria district to some palaces of culture, Mogama El-Adian and some monasteries.

The closing ceremony was attended by Dr. Inas Abdel-Dayem, Minister of Culture, Dr. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of Tourism, Dr. Fathi Abdel Wahab, Head of the Cultural Development Fund Sector, and a number of ambassadors besides arab, african and foreign communities.