 Decades earlier, the two had transformed Egypt's music scene with a new kind of popular music that spoke to the masses. Their biting lyrics were a thorn in the side of the country's dictatorship. Dana Balout of the Kerning Cultures Network brings us their story. Back in the 1960s, the El Mugi household in downtown Cairo was famous for its parties. At least once a week, a crowd would cram into its living room.