Al Massrieen was an Egyptian pop band formed in 1977 in Tanta, Egypt. Hany Shenoda is the man behind the Al Massrieen band. He is a reknowned figure of the Egyptian music scene and has worked with everyone from Abdel Halim Hafez to Mohamed Mounir. Al Massrieen was his attempt to introduce his ideas of modernizing Egyptian music, heavily encouraged by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt's only winner of the Nobel Price for literature) after discussing his ideas with him. Read more on Last.fm