# Sono Cairo

Sono Cairo (Sout Alqahira, Sout Al Qahira, or Sawt al-Qahira: Arabic: شركة صوت القاهرة للصوتيات والمرئيات, "the sound of Cairo") is an Egyptian government owned multimedia company.

## Company history

Launched as a privately owned record company, it was taken over by the government in 1964, and became the country's largest producer of discs. As of 2009 it is under the control of the Ministry of Information.
Artist Mohamed Fawzi & Co was established alshark alawsat factory for CD's on 30 April 1959 and turned into sout Alqahira Company for CD's on 6 January 1964. Then issued its decision, Mr. / Minister of Information No. 139 of 1977 established a sout alqahira company for Audio and Video as an Egyptian joint stock companies as one of the Radio and Television Union of the Ministry of Information.
In Egyptian Revolution of 1952, President Anwar Sadat made a speech from the company's broadcast.

## Former Chairmen

| No. | Name | From | To |
| 1 | Taha Mohammed EL-Hady Nasr | 6 January 1964 | 21 November 1979 |
| 2 | Safwat Ali Fahmy | 22 November 1979 | 31 December 1980 |
| 3 | Fathy EL-Bayumy Ebrahim | 1 January 1981 | 10 March 1982 |
| 4 | Mohammed Reda Hashem | 11 March 1982 | 22 January 1983 |
| 5 | Ahmed Mohammed EL-Fetory | 23 January 1983 | 16 July 1986 |
| 6 | Mohamed Saed Sabry | 1 September 1986 | 10 January 1990 |
| 7 | Abdel Aal Mohamed Abdel Aal | 14 January 1990 | 20 November 1994 |
| 8 | Abd EL-Rahman Ebrahem Hafez | 21 November 1994 | 20 May 1997 |
| 9 | Husien Fahmy Galal EL-Deen | 26 May 1997 | 9 October 1999 |
| 10 | Medhat Ahmed Abd EL-Menaem | 10 October 1999 | 4 June 2000 |
| 11 | Hosny Hamed EL-Rahamawy | 5 June 2000 | 5 September 2003 |
| 12 | Saed Helmy EL-Saed Yehya | 6 September 2003 | 26 November 2005 |
| 13 | Ebrahem Ahmed Ebrahem EL-Akabawy | 28 November 2005 | 5 January 2011 |

## Video production

Sono Cairo's production includes production of religious E.g. (Mohamed rasol Allah) And entertainment (music and songs) sono Cairo company Is interested in the field of video production to produce work of dramatic serials (such as gomhoreit zefta, elsharae algeded, elwatad) and other serials.

## Singing production

The company seeks to preserve the heritage of songs the good times, where it converted tapes to the electronic media in preparation to launch in the market as digital image CD & DVD & MP3.

## Religious production

The company produces the Koran.

## Stars who have worked with Sono Cairo

* Umm Kulthum
* Mohammed Abdel Wahab
* Abdul Basit Abdus Samad
* Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy
* Fairuz

## External marketing

There are fourteen companies holding the rights to distribute and print production of sout alqahira at the international level, distributed as follows:

### The Persian Gulf region and Arab countries

* Institution of sout aljazera (Saudi Arabia)
* Al-khaleg factory (Saudi Arabia)
* Dar alwasela (Saudi Arabia)
* Almostakbal company (Kuwait)
* Institution of 13- June (Yemen)
* Dan we Dan company (Kuwait)
* Music box (Dubai)
* Feras and basem company (Jordan – Palestine)
* Institution of Ghazawi (Oman, United Arab Emirates)
* Recordings of albeshry (Sharjah, UAE)

### The Maghreb region

* Vasifun (Morocco)

### Africa region

* Almasaa international for production and advertising (Sudan)

### Europe Region

* Platinum

### Region of the United States and Canada

* Mike's Sound Production (U.S. and Canada)

### E-Marketing

* To cope with the company has developed e marketing activity to use the modern techniques to market content using the international information network and voice services through mobile and ground and affixed to marketing Internet connections to sono Cairo customers and the e-marketing copying Self-electronic media (CD) & (DVD) & (MP3)

## Editing and graphics

A continuation of the bidding company and despite the fire which broke out in units of editing, graphics The company has created a new center for editing and graphics to keep pace with development in the field of video production and the center houses became include:
* No. (5) Units of Nonlinear Editing
* No. (1) Units of linear Editing
* No. (1) Units integrated graphics

## Studios

Studio (4) was created in area 200 m on the ground floor In addition to the three studios Company; this is to increase production through the use of visual studio company
* Abbasid studio (1)
* Abbasid studio (2)
* ElGib studio (3)
* New Abbasid studio (4)
* El Sayeda Nafeesa studio (5)

## Factories

The company has two factories to produce and print cassette voice in Alexandria production capacity up to more than 3 million Cassettes per one shift annually for the production and printing of the Koran bars for famous readers and religious talk, entertainment and musical.

## Press

* Printed packaging tapes and CD covers of 4-color offset printing.
* Printed posters, artists and readers of the Quran 4 color.
* Implementation and printed posters advertising (the results of a wall - the results of hierarchical - Results photographer).
* Implementation of trade publications, which include the company's publications and others from books and magazines and so on.
* Processing of paper photography for all sizes of company and others.

## Advertising agency

The advertising agency represents one of the major activity in the company which offer integrated advertising services in this regard where it propagate the clients' advertisement in the radio, TV, and Satellite.

## Sources

* ↑ Asian Music: Journal of the Society for Asian Music. The Society. 2008. p. 48.
* ↑ Michael Frishkopf (2010). Music and Media in the Arab World. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-977-416-293-0.
* ↑ Laudan Nooshin (29 April 2016). Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. Routledge. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-317-09229-2.
* ↑ Diane Singerman (2009). Papa Sartre. Oxford University Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-977-416-289-3.