{"id":79,"date":"2009-07-20T06:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:26:48","slug":"ahmed-shawqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/arabic\/ahmed-shawqi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Shawqi: Famous Arab Poet and Playwright"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahmed Shawqi (<\/span>\u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0634\u0648\u0642\u064a<\/span><\/span>) is a famous Arab poet and playwright. He is considered to be one\u00a0of the most important Arab poets in the 20th<\/sup> Century. He is given the title (<\/span>\u0623\u0645\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0621<\/span><\/span><\/span>) \u201clit. The Prince of Poets\u201d to reflect this status. \u00a0Shawqi was born in Egypt in 1870 to a family of mixed-race. His paternal grandfather was Kurdish and his grandmother was Greek. Both his parents were born and brought up in Egypt.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Shawqi grew up in Cairo to a wealthy family. He studied law and graduated in 1887. The ruler (Abbas II) appointed him in his palace as head of the translation department, and then he awarded him a scholarship to study translation and law in France in 1893.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

During his stay in France, Shawqi came to appreciate French theatre and poetry. He started a nationalist group to resist the British occupation of Egypt with colleagues in France, called (<\/span><\/strong>\u062c\u0645\u0639\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u0631\u064a<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/strong> \u201cthe society of progress of Egypt\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Shawqi returned to Egypt and continued his literary production which became of a more patriotic theme, and maintained a close friendship with leaders of nationalist movements in Egypt such as Mustafa Kamel. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
In 1915, the British occupation decided to send him to exile, and he chose to go to Barcelona in Spain where he grew very nostalgic and appreciated the grandeur of Muslim civilization in Andaluc\u00eda and wrote a large number of poems and plays about this great history and about his love for Egypt. He returned back to Egypt in 1920.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>The literary production of Ahmed Shawqi is rich and varied. He wrote religious, patriotic, historic poems, as well as the distinctive plays he wrote in poetry. Some of the works of Ahmed Shawqi are still taught at schools. Here is a couple of lines from a poem I studied at school ages ago, can you understand them?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u0627\u0644\u0646\u0650\u0651\u064a\u0644\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0639\u064e\u0630\u0652\u0628\u064f \u0647\u0648<\/span>\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0652\u062b\u0631\u0652<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0648\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0629 \u064f \u0634\u0627\u0637\u0626\u0647<\/span>\u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0636\u0631\u0652<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\u0631\u064a\u064e\u0651\u0627\u0646\u064f \u0627\u0644\u0635\u064e\u0651\u0641\u062d\u0629 \u0650<\/span>\u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0646\u0638\u0631\u0652<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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\u0645\u0627 \u0623\u0628\u0647\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062e\u0644\u062f\u064e \u0648\u0645\u0627 \u0623\u0646\u0636\u0631\u0652<\/span> !<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahmed Shawqi (\u0623\u062d\u0645\u062f \u0634\u0648\u0642\u064a) is a famous Arab poet and playwright. He is considered to be one\u00a0of the most important Arab poets in the 20th Century. He is given the title (\u0623\u0645\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0621) \u201clit. The Prince of Poets\u201d to reflect this status. \u00a0Shawqi was born in Egypt in 1870 to a family of mixed-race. His…<\/p>\n

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