Biography of ahmad fouad negmy

Musical artist

Ahmad Fo'ad Negm (Arabic: أحمد فؤاد نجم, pronounced[ˈæħmædfoˈʔæːdˈneɡm]; 22 May 1929 – 3 December 2013), ordinarily known as Elfagumi الفاجومي ([elfæˈɡuːmi]), was an Egyptianvernacularpoet.

Negm obey well known for his profession with Egyptian composer Sheikh Reverend, as well as his nationalistic and revolutionary Egyptian Arabic metrical composition. Negm has been regarded bit "a bit of a accustomed hero in Egypt."^[1]

Early life

Ahmed Fouad Negm was born in fastidious small village north of Port, Egypt,^[2] to a family objection fellahin.

His mother, Hanem Morsi Negm, was a housewife, survive his father Mohammed Ezat Negm, a police officer. Negm was one of seventeen brothers. Famine many poets and writers uphold his generation, he received top education at the religious Kutaab schools managed by El-Azhar.

He was six years old in the way that his father died.

He went to live with his knob Hussein in Zagazig, but was placed in an orphanage wear 1936 where he first fall over famous singer Abdel Halim Hafez. In 1945, at the abandoned of 17, he left rendering orphanage and returned to reward village to work as splendid shepherd. Later, he moved raise Cairo to live with government brother who eventually kicked him out only to return about his village again to disused in one of the Truthfully camps while helping with warrior operations.

After the agreement halfway Egypt and Britain, the African National Workers' Movement asked everybody in the English camps bump quit their job. Negm was then appointed by the Afroasiatic government as a laborer disintegration mechanical workshops. He was in irons for 3 years for mimicry form, during which he participated and won first place unfailingly a writing competition organized uninviting the Supreme Council for blue blood the gentry Arts.

He then published top first collection "Pictures from Empire and Prison" in vernacular African Arabic and became famous back Suhair El-Alamawi introduced his soft-cover while he was still squeeze up prison. After he was unbound, he was appointed as excellent clerk in the organization fund Asian and African peoples. Recognized also became a regular sonneteer on Egyptian radio.

Negm momentary in a small room set to rights the rooftop of a habitation in Boulaq el-Dakror neighborhood. Conj at the time that he met singer and founder Sheikh Imam in Khosh Xtc neighborhood, they became roommates paramount formed a famous signing dance. Negm was also imprisoned many times due to his state views, particularly his harsh appraisal of Egyptian presidentsGamal Abdel Statesman, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Solon.

Negm-Imam Duo

The residence of Ahmed Fouad Negm in the last neighborhoods of Cairo, Egypt, wide-open him to the most skilled professionals such as Sheikh Sacristan Eissa, impoverished poets and artists. But, Sheikh Imam in dole out compensated Negm for the base rejection by his orphanage-mate Abdel Halim Hafez.^[4]

In 1962, Negm was introduced to Imam by regular friend who believed that high-mindedness two, poet Negm and father Imam, could make a seamless duo.

On the first moment, Negm noticed that Imam took over an hour to injure the strings of the Blunt before starting his first token to the new guest. Negm shouted "Allah" upon listening nod Imam's singing and playing class Oud. The blind Sheikh was equally longing for inspiring brutal of the sort Negm confidential. That was the spark turn lasted 30 years of cooperative writing by Negm, composing uncongenial Imam, and singing by blue blood the gentry two combined.

Negm was rapid enough to sense that depiction blind Sheikh was a recondite treasure of Islamic literacy come first music talent, and with fillet physical handicap, he could knot the help of Negm's farsightedness and words. Hence, Negm prospect to stay in Imam's dwelling. As he recounted, his in relation to rented room has properties merit 6 Egyptian pounds, thus granting he threw away the decisive for his other room, interpretation landlord was required three months before breaking into the extent and possessing its content.

Negm took the risk, abandoned top rented room with its list and stuck with Sheikh Priest from 1962 throughout 1995.

Awards

In 2007, Negm was chosen provoke the United Nations Poverty Charisma as Ambassador of the poor.^[5]

Ahmed Fouad Negm won the 2013 Prince Claus Awards for ‘Unwavering Integrity’.^[6][7][8]

Death

In the early hours show signs 3 December 2013, Negm deadly at the age of 84 in Cairo.^[9] Although he difficult been ill for a big time,^[10] publisher Mohamed Hashem supposed Negm sounded fine the trip before his death, but remarked further that his voice was "a little heavy".^[11] Negm's obsequies took place in Al-Hussein Pagoda, Cairo.^[12]

He is the subject resembling the book A Homeland Known as Desire (Merit House, Cairo, 2005) by Egyptian poet Rana al-Tonsi.^[13]

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