Poet Abdel Rahman al-Abnoudi From Upper Egypt Dies
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 11:04 pm
CAIRO: Egyptian renowned poet Abdel Rahman al-Abnoudi passed away in Cairo at 76 after a series of operations, the last of which was on his brain April 19.
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called the vernacular poet and other senior statesmen and artists visited him in the weeks before his passing.
Abnoudi was able to provide press statements early in April, where he expressed his wish to attend the inauguration of the New Suez Canal in August and the opening of a museum in his hometown of Abnoud in Qena, Upper Egypt.
The iconic poet wrote several poems that touched the conscience of the Egyptian people, such as Adda el-Nahar (the morning has passed.) He wrote the poem after the defeat of Egypt by Israel in 1967; late popular singer Abdel Halim Hafez sang the poem in a song that still triggers the sentiments of Egyptians to this day.
Not only did Abnoudi write in the Egyptian dialect, rather than classical Arabic and without adhering to the standard verse style of Arabic poetry, but he also recited his poems in the rough slang of Upper Egyptians.
He also wrote the screenplay and songs for prominent Egyptian pictures that expose social and political problems, namely “El-Tooq wel Eswera” (the Collar and the Bracelet) and el-Barei (the Innocent.)
Abnoudi, who has two daughters, won the State Award in 2001 and the Mahmoud Darwish Award in 2014.
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President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called the vernacular poet and other senior statesmen and artists visited him in the weeks before his passing.
Abnoudi was able to provide press statements early in April, where he expressed his wish to attend the inauguration of the New Suez Canal in August and the opening of a museum in his hometown of Abnoud in Qena, Upper Egypt.
The iconic poet wrote several poems that touched the conscience of the Egyptian people, such as Adda el-Nahar (the morning has passed.) He wrote the poem after the defeat of Egypt by Israel in 1967; late popular singer Abdel Halim Hafez sang the poem in a song that still triggers the sentiments of Egyptians to this day.
Not only did Abnoudi write in the Egyptian dialect, rather than classical Arabic and without adhering to the standard verse style of Arabic poetry, but he also recited his poems in the rough slang of Upper Egyptians.
He also wrote the screenplay and songs for prominent Egyptian pictures that expose social and political problems, namely “El-Tooq wel Eswera” (the Collar and the Bracelet) and el-Barei (the Innocent.)
Abnoudi, who has two daughters, won the State Award in 2001 and the Mahmoud Darwish Award in 2014.
http://www.thecairopost.com/news/category/inside_egypt