Princess Al-Baili's party canceled after 40 thousand young people stampede

The poet of “Al-Shabab” raises a dispute between “liberals” and “conservatives” in Upper Egypt

Amira tends to write “festival songs”.

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Events witnessed by South Valley University in Qena, Upper Egypt, to attend the concert of the poet Amira El-Baili, due to poor organization, caused cases of suffocation and fainting after the widespread public turnout to attend the concert. , and others "conservative" denounced the matter, as "poet out of the ordinary."

The poet Amira Al-Baili, who has been organizing poetry since she was 14 years old, and writes in the Egyptian dialect, was able to make her way through YouTube, and achieve great fame for herself in Egyptian universities and youth circles, in recent years, due to her direct expression of youthful thoughts when Young men and women, and her first poem “I am bored” was viewed 45 million times, while the number of her permanent followers on “Facebook” reached four million, according to her press statements.

The holding of the Baili party last week sparked widespread controversy in Upper Egypt, exacerbated by violent incidents in which students opened fire extinguishers on girls and threw stones at the university guards. And a female student, while more than 40,000 people rushed to the venue, prompting the university president, Dr. Youssef Gharbawi, to cancel the ceremony, according to identical accounts.

Al-Baili said on her Facebook page that she "regrets the violence inflicted by some models, and understands the decision to cancel due to poor organization, and has all the love and respect for the people of Upper Egypt, and this crowding is in part an indication of love and appreciation from the students."

On the sidelines of the ceremony, opponents of Amira Al-Baili attacked, on the communication pages, the male and female students racing to attend the ceremony, and a commentator said, “Upper Egypt has lost the true meaning of ancient customs and traditions, and a generation (the internet, Facebook and Talk) has appeared, destroying everything that distinguishes us and we are proud of in front of people.” Several saw that the crowding of male and female students to attend a poet's party, no matter how some disagreed with the contents of some of her poems, is a development in the interest of young people in poetry, whose interest in it has become limited circles.

It is noteworthy that Amira Al-Baili has recently stated that after the success of her poetry concerts, she intends to write festival songs with the intention of "improving her words", as she put it.

• Poet Amira El-Baili, who has been organizing poetry since she was 14 years old, and writes in the Egyptian dialect, was able to make her way through YouTube and achieve great fame for herself in Egyptian universities and youth circles.

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