It is based on his poetic verse, “If a poor man falls for him, he will fall for him,” referring to a girl
Feminist criticism of Fouad Negm accusing his poetry of masculinity and bullying
Najm - the imam of a perpetually controversial duo.
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Ilham Aidarous explodes a case to support women's rights.
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The late Egyptian poet, Ahmed Fouad Negm, and his artistic twin, Sheikh Imam, were subjected to a feminist criticism campaign, launched by the left-wing activist Ilham Aidarous, in which she accused Negm of using offensive masculine language towards Egyptian women in his poems, which contradicts his progressive vision.
Elham Aidarous, a leader in the "Bread and Freedom" party under establishment, wrote on her Facebook page that "there is a terrible song by Najm and the sheikh in front of her name (a.s. al-Mahatta), which ends with the phrase (he means the universe will be ruined if the poor fall for him). And the hala and the habesha here are not rich people’s money, but rather a piece of a body (even a playground) - meaning a girl - who rode the bus in the first class.”
Aidaros said, "This song is what kept her away from Negm and Sheikh Imam, especially since they did not apologize for it, and none of their companions said that it was a backwards fall."
Aidaros added that "even the most recent intellectuals, when they remember the masculinity and populism of a star-imam, consider it star-studded and populist, and some of them narrate strange justifications."
Aidarous’s article opened the door to mentioning similar criticisms of both Najm and Imam, as several other comments referred to masculine and bullying examples of Najm’s poems, such as a house in which he says “they are the villa, the Arab, and the purified women,” and verses alluding to the courtship of a girl by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, during His presence in a Cairo cultural evening.
On the other hand, one of the symbols of the student movement in the seventies, the engineer Kamal Khalil, criticized what he considered a campaign against Najm-Imam, considering the attack on them a demolition of their artistic and revolutionary history.
Khalil said that "the attack on Najm-Imam has become a fashion," noting that "Najm was an honest revolutionary voice from among the ranks of the people, he daringly opposed dictatorship and corruption, sided with the poor, and paid the price." But a commentator, Shema Hamdi, responded to Khalil by saying: And what is the problem with having a revolutionary political voice that falls into mistakes that are currently being reviewed?”
It is worth noting that the battle around a star-imam erupts from time to time in the Egyptian cultural scene, around different axes every period, but the new one this time erupts in the heart of the left ranks, between the traditional wing and the women's wing, which looks at the phenomenon of the star-imam with new standards. .
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