#ahmed_fouad_negm

#Egypt Mourns Loss of “the People’s Poet”
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-mourns-loss-%E2%80%9C-people%E2%80%99s-poet%E2%80%9D

http://english.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/4cols/leading_images/1161078346216706300_1.jpg

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. (...)

#Culture_&_Society #Articles #Gamal_Abdel-Nasser #January_25_revolution

Revolutionary Egyptian poet dies at 84
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/revolutionary-egyptian-poet-dies-84

Egyptian poet #Ahmed_Fouad_Negm, renowned for his revolutionary #Poetry and for his harsh criticism of political leaders, died on Tuesday at the age of 84, a publisher said. “Ahmed Fouad Negm passed away. He was 84,” Mohammed Hashem told AFP. Negm spent a total of 18 years in jail for his strident criticism of former Egyptian presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak. He became recognized as a voice of protest in 1967 when he wrote poems on the Arab-Israeli war, which were highly acclaimed. read more

#Egypt #poets #Top_News