إذاعة صوت العرب
In 1956, two Algerian officials went to Egypt and met him at the headquarters of the Voice of the Arabs radio station to commission the Algerian anthem. When the head of the Moroccan office, Mohamed Aboul Fotouh, remarked that a “light music” composer was unsuited to writing a national anthem, Fawzi rose to the challenge and wrote the one still in use.