Real name: أمير عبد المجيد (Amīr ʾAbd al-Magīd)

Amir Abdel Magid (born 1960 in Assiut) is an Egyptian composer, producer and a player of the kanun. He is especially well-known throughout the Gulf, in Saudi Arabia and Dubai for his classical style of production, concerts, and recording. Amir has also collaborated with western artists. He played kanun on Jaz Coleman and Anne Dudley's Songs From The Victorious City. This connection with Jaz Coleman led to his meeting with British engineer/producer Greg Hunter in 1993 who was recording with Killing Joke in Cairo. The pair teamed up to write music, fusing Oriental instrumentation with Western electronica - samples / computers etc.