Ahmed Ibrahim
2 min readOct 23, 2022

Fouad Al-Zahery the music genius

Fouad Grabit Panosian "Fouad Al-Zahery" was an Egyptian musician of Armenian origin. He was born in Egypt on 15 October 1916, graduated from the Freire School and obtained a certificate of competence. His sponsorship by the Palestinian professor Konstanti Al-Khoury had a significant impact on his learning to play the violin.

He was able to join the Fouad I Institute of Arabic Music. He succeeded in studying the violin as a disciple under the Polish professor Alexander Kontrowicz, and after graduating, he was appointed a teacher of songs at the Ministry of Knowledge. In 1942, he participated in the choir of the Church of St. Joseph as a violinist and succeeded in composing many musical pieces that met with a lot of success, including ( Call for Freedom, and the Legend of Wafaa al-Nil).

He then continued his work where he worked as a professor at the Institute of Performing Arts, and some of his works were broadcast by Middle East Radio. He was also a music observer at Egyptian Radio. He left us on 1 October 1988

His artworks include:

Karamet zawgaty
El-Qahera 30
Rod Qalbi
Shee' mn El-azab
El-Zoga El-thania
Bedaia we Nehaia
Seraa fe El-Meena
Thalath Nesaa
Bab El-Hadid
Haza hwa El- hob
La anam
Eskandria leeh
El-mar'a al-laty ghalabt El-Shaitan
Hob w Kebria'
Endama yaskot Al-gasad
Marzooka
Lyaly Lan Taaood
El-hob wahdo la yakfi
Hayaty Azab
Abo Hadid
Sawa' Nos El-leel
Shayateen El-leel
La tatroukni wahdi
Laenet Al Zaman
Whoosh El-Meena
Sobyan w Banat
Hadeth Al Nesf Metr
El-Nas Elly Taht
Al-Zawag Al-Saeed
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Endama Noheb
Al-Rajol Al-Akher

Ahmed Ibrahim

Full-fledged Content Creator & Tech Journalist. Worked previously with top publishers like AkhbarTech, Abda Adv, and RobbReportArabia.