Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

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Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi Biography

Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi (Arabic: أحمد عبد المعطي حجازي‎) (born in 1935 in Al-Menoufiya, Egypt) is an Egyptian contemporary poet. Contributed to many literary conferences in many Arab capitals, and is one of the pioneers of the movement of renewal in contemporary Arabic poetry. Bachelor of Arts, Department of Sociology at the University of Sorbonne, France, in 1979. He was the managing editor of Rose al-Yūsuf magazine. In France he worked as a professor of Arabic poetry at the Paris 8 University and the new Sorbonne University. He returned to Cairo and worked for Al-Ahram newspaper. He served as editor-in-chief of Ibdaa magazine from 1990 to 2002 when he resigned from the post. He was reappointed editor-in-chief of the magazine in 2006.)

The Best Poem Of Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

A Lemon Basket

A basket full of lemon
Under the jagged beams of the sun
A little boy is calling out with a voice of sorrow
For only one piaster, twenty lemons
Twenty lemons for only one
A basket full of lemon
Left, at dawn, the countryside
She was, till that cursed time
Green covered with dewdrops
Swimming in the waves of shadows
She was, while snoozing in the green bed
Looking like a bride the birds need
Oh! Who made her feel frightened?
Oh, which hand was starving indeed?
Picked her while it was dawning
Brought her in the morning
To stuffy streets
Crowded with nonstop feet
Cars driving with burning gasoline
How helpless!
No one can have a smell of you
While the sun is evaporating your dew
And the tan boy is keeping running so far
He can't catch up with any car
But he is still calling out under the sun
For only one piaster, twenty lemons
Twenty lemons for only one

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