The Arab world lost three of its cultural icons in the spam of a month. They are Egyptians philosopher Dr Abdel Wahab El Miseiri and film maker Youssef Chahine and Palestinian poet Mahmood Darwish. Egyptian Blogger, ElGharep, or The Stranger, reflects on the loss in this post [Ar].
الأول كاتب والثانى مخرج والثالث شاعر ….يختلفون فى المجال الثقافى فعبد الوهاب المسيرى الفيلسوف المصرى صاحب موسوعة اليهود واليهودية والصهيونية والذى أعطى كل مالديه أسرئا للثقافة …يوسف شاهين مخرج الوعى والذى جسدت أفلامه كل ألم مصرى وعربى من فيضان النيل ف”بن النيل” و النكسة فى ” عصفور ” وتوقعه بالنصر فى “الأرض” والكثير من الأفلام التى عبرت عن شئ واحد فقط وهو المصرى وقضاياه وأخيرا…محمود درويش ” شاعر الأنتفاضة والذى كتب بكل أسى عن شقاء الاجئ الفلسطينى المسحوق أمام قوة الأحتلال الصهيونى الغاشم وتخاذل الأنظمة العربية المخزى
The first was a writer, the second a director and the third a poet. The three of them differed in their cultural dimensions. El Miseiri was the Egyptian philosopher who wrote the encyclopaedia Jews, Judaism and Zionism. He exerted everything he had to enrich the culture. Youssef Chahine was a director whose movies tried to record all of the Egyptian and Arab people's pain, such as the Nile's flood in Ibn El Nile (The Nile's Son), the setback in Asfour (Bird), and his expectations of victory in El Ard (The Land) as well as many other movies that discussed one thing: Egyptians and their problems. And lastly, Mahmood Darwish, the Intifada poet who wrote about the misery the Palestinian refugees due to the Zionist invasion, and embarrassing weakness of Arab governments.
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