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Does anybody here love Salah Jaheen?? I just adore this man! i have his poems, cartoons, and a tape of his roba3yat sung by sayed mekkawi. i also bought dozens of plate and mug mats with his poems written in english and arabic written on it!
my favourite poem is "3ala esm masr" which i love so much inshallah the next time i go to egypt i will have it carved on a plague!
so do any of you guys read his poems?
anyway here are a couple of interesting articles about him:
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here's a part of one of my favourites which i think was after the ba7r el bakr massacre: it makes me want to cry
el dars entaha
el dars entaha lemo el kararais bel dam eli 3ala warakhym sal fe kasr el omam el muta7da mosabqa le rsoom el atfal eh ra2yak fel boka3 el 7amra? ya dameer el 3alam ya 3azeezy? di le tefla masriya we samra kanet men ashtra talameezy damha rasm zahra rasm rayet thawra rasem wageh mo2amra rasem khelak gabara rasm nar rasm 3ar 3al sohyoneya wel este3mar wel donya eli 3aleihom sabra we sakta 3ala le3b el abalees el dars entaha lemo el kararees
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here's some of his stuff translated (not by me). unfortunatly much is lost in translation, but anyway here they are
Your own despair and patience are yours you are free to despair or not life will always be what it will have to be i've tasted both and strangely i have discovered that patience is bitter but so is despair
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I opened my window to the morning glow only the wind came in with a holw and a scream i opened my heart to let this sadness flow only love and mercy came out in a scream
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I with the impossible fall madly in love, saw this moon and leaped in the air above reached it or not what do i really care? and why this pleasure was in this love affair?
I said a word with two full meanings and like a womb bearing twins: one good and one bad if this world is evil, the good will then die if it is good, for whom would live the bad?
Away from earth and on a distant star I sat in space and watched it from afar I saw no difference between land and sea Pain and joy looked the same to me
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Aww I really like the translations, I imagine they are even better before they are translated. Do you know where I can find some more in English?
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مش فارقة معانا ولا هارية بدنا ولا تاعبه قلوبنا ولا فاقعة بيضاننا
يا عريس الدولة أفرح وأتهنى ما أحناش كارهينك لكن هارشينك ح تكمل دينك وتطلع دينا
To Mubarak:
عليا الحرنكش يا ريس مبارك في عصر مزركش ملون بنارك لابايعك وأبايع حكومة حمارك ملعون أبو اللي يقاطع قرارك نهاره مقندل وليله مبارك فهمبك وهجص وطلع في ديننا أكيد هو طالع يشاهد جمالك
جمالك مبارك سوزانك سوزاننا يامحلا حصارك لمصر اللي جالنا نسيمها في عصرك بيشوي في بدنا أؤيد وأبايع فخامة جلالتك وأيد أي واحد بيمسح ريالتك ولأنك سر باتع هاننسى هبالتك فأقعد ياريس ودلل حمامتك حمامة السلام حمامتك
سلامة الحمامة وسلامتك يا ريس ياريس حمامة ياريس كويس على تل مصر ياريتك تهيص خرابة فسيحة عليها تمتيس وأأمر تطاع فشعبك مفيص
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oh i love that poem! thanks lazeez. where did you get it from?
i have the complete collection of negm's work but unfortunatly i left it in egypt. obviously though this is a new one.
you know the only thing that i dislike about him is that he claimed to be the "best colloquial poet of all time" in an interview. i really disagree with that! i think salah jaheen is so much better
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quote:Originally posted by suzy24/7: Aww I really like the translations, I imagine they are even better before they are translated. Do you know where I can find some more in English?
the diwan bookstore in zamalek has a lot of his stuff translated. and yes a lot was lost in the translation
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