Ahmed El Maghraby

Synergos Social Entrepreneur & Founder, Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts

Ahmed is the founder and director of the Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts at Makan, which preserves the musical heritage of Egypt by providing opportunities for marginalized Egyptian musicians to make a profit through concerts, international festivals and workshops. ECCA expands the audience for traditional music by renewing the performer-audience-venue relationship, and by increasing the opportunities for financial self-sustainability for musicians.

El Maghraby organizes successful conferences and projects with professionals in the arts, regularly oversees workshops between ECCA-affiliated musicians and their foreign counterparts, and continuously expands and enhances a weekly concert schedule. The organization also provides a performance venue, combines different Egyptian music cultures in a new and unique sound, teaches young people how to play traditional musical instruments and styles through its instrument school, and hosts artistic workshops and exchanges for musicians.

In order to safeguard Egyptian cultural memory, ECCA records, documents, and archives current practices, making the music available to scholars, musicians, and an increasingly broad-based audience.

 

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