Abdelbasset Abdessamad is a renowned Qur'an reciter born in 1927 in a village called Almara'za in Egypt. Abdelbasset Abdessamad learnt the Holy Quran at an early age from Cheikh Mohamed El Amir and later from Mohamed Selim Hamada. He entered the National Radio Station in 1951. The first Surah he recited was "Fater". In 1952, Abdelbassset Abdessamad was appointed official reciter to Al Imam Achafiî's mosque and then to Al Imam Al Hussain's mosque in 1985. Abdelbasset Abdessamad has left a fortune of high qualified recordings of both the chanted Holy Scripture and the recited one. He was an ambassador of the Holy Qur'an across many countries and the first president of Egyptian reciters Bar in 1984. Abdelbassed Abdessamad went to many Arab countries to recite the Qur'an in Ramadan such as the Saudi Arabia and Syria. Abdelbassed Abdessamad died on November the 30th, 1988. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cheikh+Abdulbasset+Abdussamad">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.