Remembering the Poet of Egypt’s (Previous) Revolution
Today in Al Masry Al Youm, Heba Afify has an essay about colloquial poet Salah Jaheen (accompanied by a terrible photo of the rotund revolutionary).
colloquial poetry
Searching for the Secret of Egypt’s Uprising in Her Literature
Many have portrayed pre-#Jan25 Egypt to be passive or dormant, stupefied or sleeping. Thus, the search for “clues” to the 2011 protests. What could possibly lead these sleepy Egyptians (or, as The New Yorker Books Bench says, “‘innately’ docile”) to revolt against 30 years of stupid, cruel dictatorship?