Such songs include Abdel El Halim Hafez’s Soora (Picture) written by Salah Jaheen and Kolna Hanebny Wady Ehna Banena El Sad El Aly (We will all build a valley, we built the high dam), which was sung as a celebration of the building of the high dam during the era of president Gamal Abdel El Nasser.

Aly El Haggar and Mohamed Mounir, were also highly censored. Haggar’s Hona El Kahera (We are all Cairo) and Mounir’s El Khawaga Ebn Mareeka (The foreigner, the son of Mareeka) are such examples.