12-22-2007, 10:31 PM
12-22-2007, 11:17 PM
Negm writes in the colloquial Arabic spoken in the Egyptian street, and his voice carries weight in a country where the educated and wealthy elite is largely isolated or co-opted by the government.
While a literary icon, Negm has never strayed from his anti-establishment lifestyle and irreverence toward government authority. He saves his respect, he says, for ordinary Egyptians such as himself.
"We have been through 7,000 years of brutal oppression," he says. "How will we come out of this dark tunnel? My money is on the Egyptian man on the street."
Negm has no formal education, was once convicted and jailed for forgery and has at times earned a living as a house servant and a postal worker. He has lived what he writes about
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While a literary icon, Negm has never strayed from his anti-establishment lifestyle and irreverence toward government authority. He saves his respect, he says, for ordinary Egyptians such as himself.
"We have been through 7,000 years of brutal oppression," he says. "How will we come out of this dark tunnel? My money is on the Egyptian man on the street."
Negm has no formal education, was once convicted and jailed for forgery and has at times earned a living as a house servant and a postal worker. He has lived what he writes about
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