Love of Jihan and the Republic of Aswani .. Echo January 25 in creativity

Mohamed Thabet - Cairo

The eighth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 revolution takes place amid literary attempts to express it, in which poetic and novelist brilliance is a big part, with considerable artistic confusion and volatility.

It is surprising that we find in the folds of the novelist art work or the poetic chamber artistic forms and contents stemming from the heat of pride in the revolutionary event, as well as a creative concern resulting from the depth of the refraction, due to the harsh reasons behind the revolution, and then to the end and the fate of the revolution.

My hair is estranged
Egyptian Poet Mohamed Fouad Ali An example of the anxiety and hope of the poets of this period together, the poet Al Jazeera Net poem poem ", where the apparent alienation of poetry between the dark reality and the great hopes flowering, especially the massacre of Rabaa Adawiya, which killed hundreds of supporters of the President isolated Mohamed Morsi on 14 August 2013.

Fouad says:

My hair is beautiful beauty. I landed on Ghosn Al Jalal in the fourth

My hair is a martyr who died of his blood filling

My hair is a girl when she asked her

Bloody patches of joy over the rich .. A child here crying and full of tears

Despite the great sacrifices that the poet refers to in the verses between the fourth field and the Renaissance or the "field of the university", referring to the field of Renaissance in front of the University of Cairo in Giza, a convoy of a fourth sit-in, the wonderful exploits did not lead the poet only to the martyr poetry " While the poet dreamed that his hair would be "the beauty of beauty".

As for the poet's third and last poet, "The Last Rose of the Injury," his name in itself is a testimony to his creative alienation between revolutionary hopes and bitter frustrating reality. Despite the pain, the poet addresses the Egyptian people in the poem,

Thir ..

The root and uprooting of the tyrannical tyrants ..

And rip the illusions thorn ..

Take my tears ..

To love you Cihan
If we go to the world of the novel and its expression about the Egyptian revolution and its challenges, we did not find their worlds better than poetry much, although the visions of heroes and their treatments of reality and hopes more detailed.

The first with the novel "To Love You Cihan" (2015, the Egyptian-Lebanese publishing house) by Makkawi Said, who left on December 9, 2017, leaving 6 collections of stories and 3 books of narratives and stories for children.

The novel is the third and final novel of the late writer, in which the suffering of the middle class highlights the difficulties and sometimes the impossibility of life, through the suffering and the voices of its three heroes Ahmed Al-Dawi, Rain Matar and Jihan Al-Orabi, among them the corrupt police officer with caution Emad Sidqi.

Through the succession of the three voices, the chapters of the novel revolve around 70 chapters, between the passion of the novelist of the late narration, but fascination with the details of the life of the hero and dozens of secondary people, and then love the features of the neighborhoods of Cairo and its cafes and old and new, make us swim with the writer in a world of thousands of minute details of the change Life in college, the positive of the revolution according to the writer.

Ahmed Al-Dawi, the contracting engineer, lives alone after his divorce, "Ahlam," and as compensation for the loss of his left-wing generation's dream, he drowns his ears in a sensual relationship with "Reem Matar," who says " And its external behavior and its aristocratic tongue and what lies behind it insolence. "

Reem of the remnants of a middle class, knows only fun, and it is difficult to keep up with the hero trying to assassinate him morally.

Cihan Al-Orabi is the embodiment of a larger symbol than a novelist. She is a widow studying cinema, which is a mere example of the chastity of every man. She finds herself only in the January revolution. The hero finally approaches her, but he cites during the revolution, .

Republic of Aswani
If the story of Mekkawi knew its way to direct the mention of real people and their position of the revolution, Igal novel in the fiction justified it to some extent, which sailed the "Republic of As", the fourth novel by writer and novelist Alaa Aswani, issued last year, "House of Arts" In Beirut, on the anniversary of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

The novel is banned from circulation in Egypt, located in 521 pages and 73 chapters, divided between four voices, the most important, "Ahmed Atwani," Egyptian state security official at the time of the revolution.

The novel is based on the fact that the state security apparatus was ordered to step down Mubarak and attack the revolution with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood leader even before the deposed leader resigned, which technically implicated the writer and distanced himself from the truth in expressing the reality.

"The Disturbed Earth" and the Victory of the Dream:
In his novel "The Disturbed Earth" ("The Books of the British"), the writer Ahmed Hafez expresses a vision that summarizes the reality and triumphs for the future, with a novel that combines the vocabulary of poetry and his vision, although it does not detract from the sedition of the language and its symbolism and idealism.

The eight chapters of the novel are going on in a clouded atmosphere. In an unknown country, the homeland is occupied by a part of its land. Instead of liberating it, the military seeks to separate the occupied part by establishing another new state in agreement with the occupier, which does not satisfy the champions who are thirsty for freedom. Hope, while the author expresses the idealistic rebellious masses hungry for liberation in the voice of 1, 2, 3.

All the people are thirsty for freedom, and traitors are the only beneficiaries, and the names of all heroes express a dreamy symbolism of the ultimate victory.