What's Wrong with Me? | Salam Murabae (1978)
Fifi Abdo interviews Ahmed Adaweya about Salam Murabae and more I want to believe that the album is, on some level, a response to, or at the very least conscious of, Egypt's newfound peace with its neighbors As a small-town American born in the early 1960s, my introduction to Egypt was almost certainly via news of the Camp David Accords, hashed out between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, with Jimmy Carter as mediator, in September 1978. My copy of Salam Murabae ( Peace Square ) has a torn piece of Post-It Note stuck to it with "78" written in my handwriting, assuring Present Me that Past Me must have determined this to have been the original release year of the cassette. Unfortunately, Present Me can find no evidence of this searching anywhere online today. I want to believe that the album is, on some level, a response to, or at the very least conscious of, Egypt's newfound peace with its neighbors (yes, plural; Egypt had also been at war with Libya). Ahmed covered