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Monday, 11 December 2017

Sha’bolla is back, and he’s out for Trump

The Donald has awakened Sha’bolla from his slumber: After a rather long absence, the living, wheezing embodiment of sha’bi music that is Shaaban Abdel Rahim has returned with a scathing attack on US President Donald Trump. The man who brought us such classics as Habatal El Sagayer (I will quit cigarettes) and “I hate Israel, but I love Amr Moussa” tears into the US President over the embassy move with his characteristic flare of lyricism and political commentary — interspersed with the ever present “eeeeeh.” The song title: “Trump has lost his mind” (watch, runtime: 4:31). Sha’bolla, you have indeed been missed.

For our non-Egyptian readers fortunate never to have heard of him: Think Weird Al Yankovic trying desperately to be Bob Dylan. After a lobotomy.

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