Welcome, Fellow Netizens!

 

I owe God many big THANKS! First, for sharing with us, humans, some of His power to make beauty; so we, too, can make such things as poetry, music, art, etc. Second, for giving me such an honour to be working with Him, under His supervision, and with His unfailing support. I hope you'll enjoy your visit here. And honour me again, plenty of times!

Who I am

My name is Hosam Adeeb Nashed Fahmy, I live in Egypt (you see, I'm Egyptian). I'm a composer, but I also once worked as a computer programmer. Currently, my official title is Logistics & Customer Support Officer.

Through this page, and others, I intend to make available many of my religious (christian, Coptic orthodox) songs (lyrics in Arabic, Egyptian music; both mine, unless otherwise stated), especially for children, so that any church servant who needs them can download them.

Frankly, I've done nothing to make my recordings of any professional quality; I'm not trying to short-circuit anyone, really. These are simply the author's cut, sung by yours truly (not the most brilliant choice, I realize ... ). Therefore, any church - or charity organization - who would like to finance a better setting of any of these songs (better voices; live instruments; etc.) is welcome to do so. Just contact me.

On the other hand, nobody is allowed to make money by selling any of these recordings (except for the sole, noble, reason mentioned above). (Anyway, it would need a lot of courage to try and do that with recordings done by me!!!) Additionally, nobody is allowed, either, to change any part of any of these songs: lyrics, melodies, arrangement, anything (it's only natural, really; but I thought I should put it in writing, just in case). As for any form of robbery, well ... The offender's opponent won't be me; it'll be God Himself...

• "Shoft El-Maouloud A3ma", RealAudio (461 474 bytes)
  [Lyrics by Miss Jeanne Samir, modified with permission]
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• "Qumu Ta3alu Ya As7ab", RealAudio (655 333 bytes)
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• "Foq El-Gabal", RealAudio (655 360 bytes)
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• "Ahi Banet Men Be3id", RealAudio (550 307 bytes)
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• "Fel Mashakel Wel Mata3eb", RealAudio (421 084 bytes)
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• "Nurak Ya Rabbi", RealAudio (623 012 bytes)
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• "Qadd Eh Bet7ebbeni", RealAudio (760 341 bytes)
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• "Leh Sayebni Men Gher Gawab", RealAudio (703 810 bytes)
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• "Yama 3an Qeddis 7ekayt", RealAudio (896 689 bytes)
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• "3andoh Mohemm", RealAudio (316 050 bytes)
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• "Traditional Coptic Paschal Kyrie (arranged)", RealAudio (687 685 bytes)
  • N.B.: Don't be fooled with the arrangement; although I'm sure many will get the impression the whole thing has an air of occidentalism about it, mainly because of the four-voice harmony, the main melody is indeed absolutely intact. Many Copts will also find the pronunciation weird, to say the very least; as it happens, this is the original Bohairic pronunciation, as authenticated by a doctoral thesis, at Oxford, by Dr Emil Maher (currently Father Shenouda Maher), around the middle of 1970's. According to this study, the current way of pronouncing the Coptic language started in 1858 when a self-acclaimed scholar (Erian effendi Gerges Moftah) started teaching it in the then newly re-established School of Theology. The man claimed that since the Coptic alphabet was taken from the Greek, then the pronunciation that used to be heard in churches back then -- distinctly different from the way Greeks would pronounce the same letters -- must be wrong, and must have resulted from the prevailing of ignorance!!
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• "Assamereyya", RealAudio (364 543 bytes)
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• "Mas7et elMarda", RealAudio (1 460 272 bytes)
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• "Shams Essalabot", RealAudio (1 162 548 bytes)
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• "Ana Gowwaya 7obboh", RealAudio (1 003 155 bytes)
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Here are the contents of my old GeoCities site.
 

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