Hamdy el-Gazzar remembers Egypt’s “ambassador of the poor” and poet of the January 25 Revolution. Ahmed Fouad Negm, the venerated poet and outspoken critic of power, died on December 3, a few days before being awarded the Prince Claus Award. Included is Negm’s poem “Mother Egypt”.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar remembers Egypt’s “ambassador of the poor” and poet of the January 25 Revolution. Ahmed Fouad Negm, the venerated poet and outspoken critic of power, died on December 3, a few days before being awarded the Prince Claus Award. Included is Negm’s poem “Mother Egypt”.
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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Hamdy el-Gazzar discusses an Egyptian magazine paying tribute to the Tunisian Revolution’s impact on the region with its publication “Book of the Revolution.”
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Hamdy el-Gazzar discusses an Egyptian magazine paying tribute to the Tunisian Revolution’s impact on the region with its publication “Book of the Revolution.”
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In the second part of an imagined monologue, Hamdy el-Gazzar addresses the unrest surrounding the new Egyptian constitution.
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