| Quote | | | | As a musical director, Mahmoud Fadl contributed to a |
| "A few years ago, at the Love Parade in Berlin, it took | | | | four album project called "Salamat", released on |
| a very special form-a drum & DJ project called | | | | Piranha records, which focussed on the music of the |
| UNITED NUBIANS that spread the message of the | | | | legendary and suppressed Nubian culture. He has four |
| "Black Pharaohs" to the club circuit. The project | | | | albums released under his own name and on one of |
| survived the occasion and today, on the dark stage, I | | | | them pays a Nubian homage to deceased |
| sometimes travel home on a tribal house beat to the | | | | pan-Arabian diva Umm Kalthoum, showcasing the |
| rhythms of my childhood. " | | | | voice of Salwa Abou Greisha from the famous |
| Mahmoud Fadl | | | | Greisha family of Nubian musicians, with |
| Mahmoud Fadl, the celebrated Nubian Master | | | | accompaniment from the Cairo Opera. Mahmoud's |
| Drummer was born in 1955. He was raised in the cities | | | | album "Drummers of the Nile", features ancient music |
| of Assuan and Cairo in Egypt, and his Nubian | | | | from along the nile, and he collaborates with fellow |
| background is rooted in the Griot culture of the | | | | drummers Gaafar Hargal and Hamdi Matoul, Nubian |
| "Battikol" people. Mahmoud started out as a musician | | | | wedding diva Salma and many more musicians. He |
| at Nubian and Arabic wedding events as well as a | | | | has also collaborated with The Klezmatics (New York), |
| limbo dancer. He soon became a much sought after | | | | Orientalist piano player Maurice El Medioni (Marseille |
| commodity, playing with the likes of Ahmed Adawia | | | | Oran) and the famous gypsy saxophone player Ferus |
| and Nubian legend Ali Hassan Kuban. After a number | | | | Mustafov (Skopje). Mahmoud also introduced western |
| of international tours, Mahmoud Fadl secured a place | | | | audiences to the distinguished grandmaster of oriental |
| for his music in Europe and started to develop an | | | | trumpet, Samy El Bably, on an alluring album called |
| international portfolio. | | | | "Love Letters from King Tut-Ank Amen." |
| The Nubian people's legacy extends far into antiquity, | | | | Today, Mahmoud travels between Cairo and Berlin |
| predating Egyptian civilization. Some recent finds by | | | | working on various projects. His current tribal house |
| French archaeologists have suggested that Nubia | | | | project entitled "United Nubians" has earned him much |
| pre-dated Egypt by as much as 3,000 years and is, in | | | | international acclaim in the vibrant Berlin club scene. In |
| all likelihood, the source of Egyptian civilization. The | | | | addition to his work as a musician, film actor and |
| flooding of the Aswan dam, forced Mahmoud Fadl and | | | | fashion designer, Mahmoud Fadl frequently performs |
| thousands of Nubians to leave their homeland in Nubia, | | | | with the West-African Griot Ensemble, "Saf-Sap" on |
| which is located today in Northern Sudan and Southern | | | | oriental wedding and musical workshops. |
| Egypt and drowned old Nubia and countless Nubian | | | | You can listen to Mahmoud Fadl and many more |
| monuments and historical sites. | | | | African musicians at Kemet Music Radio. |