Abdel Nasser personally followed Mahmoud Darwish's move to Egypt..and Sharawi Gomaa rose to greet him at a lunch party
"The unknown text" reveals the years of the most prominent Palestinian poet in Cairo
Darwish is charmed by Cairo and its beauty.
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Darwish was received with a standing ovation from the great Egyptian intellectuals.
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The book "Mahmoud Darwish in Egypt - The Unknown Matn" by the journalist Sayed Mahmoud revealed the era of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's stay in Egypt, the details of his move to Cairo in circumstances similar to intelligence operations, and the hospitality of his reception in Egypt, culturally, in the media, officially and in the public, especially since his coming coincided with With the War of Attrition (1967-1970), the book conveyed the mixed reactions, which were not without intensity, that marred Darwish's coming, and he also referred to the circumstances of his move from Egypt to Beirut in light of political changes.
The book, published by Mediterranean publications in Milan in Italy, followed Darwish's journey to Sofia and then to Moscow, where he was one of the strongest rejectionists of the idea of leaving occupied Palestine at the beginning, but subjected him to military surveillance and house arrest in Haifa, where he was imposed by the Israeli military authorities not to Leaving his room after four in the evening every day, and signing to come daily at a security point, and the matter developed into arrest after the explosions in the city, which prompted him to change his mind and think about going out on a train to Moscow, as soon as circumstances allow him to do so.
He also referred to the account of the Palestinian ambassador to Paris, Laila Shahid, that “Gamal Abdel Nasser met Mahmoud Darwish during his secret visit to Moscow, and that Nasser offered him an invitation to reside in Egypt, after he asked him what to do here in the country of snow, and Nasser also gave orders to be treated Darwish, who had not yet reached the age of thirty, like the greatest of the educated », but the book goes back to realizes, reducing the possibility of this meeting, and refers to other accounts that confirm that Abdel Nasser followed Darwish's departure and his invitation to reside in Egypt through his aides.
Kindness
The book singles out a wide area for the hospitality that Darwish received in Egypt, where the journalist writer Ahmed Bahaa El-Din embraced him, whom Darwish considered a spiritual father in Egypt, as a substitute for his patron in Palestine, the novelist Emile Habibi, and he appointed - any Darwish - as an advisor to the "Voice of the Arabs" radio. He also appointed a journalist for Al-Ahram newspaper with a salary of 140 pounds per month, and upon his arrival in Cairo arranged a vacation trip to Luxor and Aswan, and the hospitality arrived that the Egyptian Minister of Interior at the time, Shaarawi Gomaa, welcomed him from his chair during the lunch prepared to celebrate him, a scene that paid The author of the book commented by saying: “This is an exciting scene that makes the Minister of the Interior of the largest Arab country welcome a poet warmly.” This is in addition to another celebration of his birthday, held by Ahmed Bahaa El-Din, and invited by the symbols of the Egyptian elite at the time, and in which the artist Najat Bouquet was sent to him. She reportedly attached her to a card in which she symbolized her name with the letter (n).
The book noted that Darwish, in the midst of all these hospitality, was not affected by anything as much as he was affected by a visit to a modest elementary school in Egypt, in which the students sang his poetic verses that say, "My country teaches me Iron Silasli: The violence of the eagles is the paper of the optimist."
I love Cairo like Haifa
Regarding Darwish's feelings towards Egypt, the lines revealed that “Darwish loved Cairo just as he loved Haifa,” and that he said about it “more beautiful than he imagined.” Darwish also narrated that he was “enchanted when he went to the street to see newspapers furnished and all their addresses in Arabic, in front of the Madbouli library in Talaat Harb Square. And he was also bewitched because he sees for the first time an entire city that speaks Arabic and the names of its streets in Arabic. ”
The lines also indicated that, despite all the hospitality he received in Cairo, he was also exposed to passing disturbances, including being attacked by an activist in the student movement in 1972, Samir Ghattas (a current parliamentarian), when they went to invite him to one of the student activities at Cairo University, Where he told him: “Why did you leave the resistance and come to Egypt?” He replied to him with “transcendent silence,” according to the testimony of someone attending the incident, the activist at the time and the current journalist, Mona Anis, and also like the poem “Peaceful dear to the professor” by Ahmed Fouad Negm, which The most accurate historian of the "Najm-Sheikh Imam duo", Dr. Ismat al-Nimr, confirms that it was directed against Darwish.
The compass has changed
The book deals with the impact of political changes on Darwish's presence in Cairo after the transformation that occurred in 1971 following the issue of "power centers", the change of President Anwar Sadat's internal and external political compass, the map changed overnight, and the arrest of the most important figures who were embracing Darwish, and then Darwish moved to What the author calls the "Immortals Museum" in the sixth floor of Al-Ahram newspaper, which included Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Idris, Louis Awad, Dr. Boutros Ghali, and next to Darwish patron Ahmed Bahaa El-Din.
This period is considered a prelude to Darwish's last moments in Egypt, where he leaves in the summer of 1972, under circumstances that the book was not exposed to, but its political features appear between the lines, then he moved to the "Center for Palestinian Studies" in Beirut, to start a new phase in his life.
Darwish loved Cairo just as he loved Haifa, and said that it is more beautiful than he imagined, and he was enchanted when he went to the street to see the newspapers furnished and all their titles in Arabic, in front of the Madbouly library in Talaat Harb Square, and he was also enchanted because for the first time he saw an entire city that speaks Arabic and the names of its streets in Arabic.
The book singles out a wide space for the hospitality that Darwish received in Egypt, where the journalist writer Ahmed Bahaa El-Din embraced him, whom Darwish considered a spiritual father in Egypt as a substitute for his patron in Palestine, the novelist Emile Habibi.
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