Ramy Essam
Musician & HRD
From:
Egypt
Photo:
Ramy Essam. Credits: Jón Bjarni Hjartarson.
Ramy Essam is a musician and human rights activist from Egypt.
As one of the leading figures at Tahir Square in Cairo in 2011, Ramy Essam was censored, arrested, tortured, and banned from performing following the failure of the Egyptian revolution.
In 2014, he fled Egypt and arrived in Malmö, Sweden where he was the ICORN resident until 2016.
Since then, Essam has continued making music and has collaborated with a number of artists, including PJ Harvey and Tom Morello. He remains a strong voice for freedom and social justice in Egypt, the Middle East, and globally, challenging oppression through his songs and activism.
