She revealed the "uncle's" exceptional relationship with Mahmoud Darwish ... and their love for the rhymes of songs

Journalist Nihal Kamal: Heikal thanked Al-Abnoudi for praising Nasser, despite the bitter arrests

  • Al-Abnoudi mediating Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Samih Al-Qasim.

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Television journalist Nihal Kamal revealed hidden aspects in the life of the late poet Abdul Rahman Al-Abnoudi, and the details of the story of their association with an unexpected marriage, which sparked controversy in the cultural milieu, as well as revealed Al-Abnoudi's relationship with journalist Muhammad Hassanein Heikal, and the special ties that linked him to the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish .

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Nihal Kamal said in her memoirs, which were issued under the title "A Resident in the Blackness of An-Nen", by Dar Risha, that "the story of her association with Al-Abnoudi began by inviting her cousin to her to attend a poetry evening for him at the French Cultural Center in Alexandria," when Nihal was still in the first year. Faculty of Commerce.

And Kamal noted that her attendance at a symposium of poetry in Egyptian colloquialism was the last thing she thought about, because she was a dogmatic doctrine, meaning that she belonged to the late writer Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad, who strongly favors classical Arabic and rejects colloquial poetry, so "I went to the Al-Abnoudi symposium reluctantly." .

Kamal recounted that her first acquaintance with Al-Abnoudi took place while she was preparing a TV program to host the great poet, after her boss stipulated that the speech should be within the framework of poetry only, for fear that Al-Abnoudi, known at the time for his sharp views, would address politics, and Al-Abnoudi received this condition when She told him about him with a laugh, as he told her, "So, I have no objection to appearing on your television screen," referring to the state of siege that he was subjected to at that time.

As for the story of her relationship with Al-Abnoudi, Nihal Kamal revealed that the mother of Al-Abnoudi (Hajjah Fatina) proposed the idea, which she and Al-Abnoudi received with “shock and astonishment”, given the age and class difference, and the difference in the social climate between the two parties, so the marriage was faced with strong opposition from the Nihal Kamal family , Whose father used to work as the president of an oil company, and it represented a professional challenge for her in her work on the official Egyptian television, as Al-Abnoudi was writing at the time opposition political poems, such as “Souk Al-Asr” and “The Accused”, and because of it he became angry with them, to the point that some Its superiors at "Maspero" considered its association with Al-Abnoudi a breach of the security system on television.

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Regarding Al-Abnoudi's relationship with famous art and politics, Nihal Kamal focused in her memoirs on touching on Al-Abnoudi's relationship with Haykal, which came late in the lives of the two parties (1998), after Al-Abnoudi wrote the “al-Murabaat”, and developed an introduction to it.

Kamal said that Haykal Shukr al-Abnoudi after writing a poem about the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, despite al-Abnoudi being arrested during his reign. .

The notes also dealt with Al-Abnoudi's relationship with the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, which stems from Al-Abnoudi's belief in the Palestine issue, which he gave a space in his poems, and his acquaintance with Darwish from an early age.

Nihal Kamal said that the relationship between the two poets dates back to the sixties, when the two poets used to wander together in historic Cairo whenever Darwish came to Egypt, and they combined many memories in that.

The notes indicated that Al-Abnoudi used to hold banquets for Darwish, which were among its mulukhiyah dishes and the bath, and invite a group of mutual friends, and these nights were witnessing intense political discussions, but Darwish and Al-Abnoudi often emerged from this grim atmosphere, into a simple atmosphere, where They perform a match changing rhymes and turning them into monologues.

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Kamal recounted that her first acquaintance with Al-Abnoudi took place while she was preparing a TV program to host the great poet, after her boss stipulated that the speech should be within the framework of poetry only.

The relationship between Al-Abnoudi and Darwish has its roots in the sixties, when the two poets used to wander together in historic Cairo whenever Darwish came to Egypt, and they combined many memories in that.

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