#Egypt Mourns Loss of “the People’s Poet”
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Until the moment comes for his legacy to be dealt with fairly and critically, one cannot analyze Negm’s experience without being aware of his perception of poetry as a space to exercise freedom and circumvent life’s conditions. (Photo: Wael Ladiki). Until the moment comes for his legacy to be dealt with fairly and critically, one cannot analyze Negm’s experience without being aware of his perception of poetry as a space to exercise freedom and circumvent life’s conditions. (Photo: Wael Ladiki).
#Cairo – At noon on Tuesday, December 3, Egyptian intellectuals bade farewell to the poet #Ahmed_Fouad_Negm (1929-2013), escorting him from the Imam Hussein Mosque to the Ghafir Cemetery in the Sayyida Aisha district. (...)
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