Editing Sayed Darwish (section)

==Legacy==

At the age of 30, Darwish was hailed as the father of new Egyptian music and the hero of the renaissance of Arab music.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} Journalist and historian [[Samir Kassir]] credited Darwish specifically with having "brought in completely new orchestration" to Arab music, thereby modernizing the genre.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Kassir, Samir|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/866820842|title=Being Arab|date=2013|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-84467-280-6|oclc=866820842}}</ref>

He is still very much alive in his works. His belief that music was not merely for entertainment but an expression of human aspiration imparted meaning to life.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.yatedo.com/p/Sayed+Darwish/famous/311bd58f00f6a7da68ffa5387a8f8f63|title=Yatedo Talent|website=yatedo.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-19}}</ref> He is a legendary composer remembered in street names, statues, a commemorative stamp, an Opera house, and a feature film. He dedicated his melodies to the Egyptian and pan-Arab struggle and, in the process, enriched Arab music in its entirety.

The Palestinian singer and musicologist, [[Reem Kelani]], examined the role of Sayyid Darwish and his songs in her programme for [[BBC Radio Four]] entitled "Songs for Tahrir" about her experiences of music in the uprising in Egypt in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019fxjf|title=Songs for Tahrir – BBC Radio 4|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-03-19}}</ref>