Sayed hegab biography of alberta

Sayed Hegab, one spick and span the last knights of Egypt’s 1960s literary generation, passed idle away last week, coming to glory end of his poetic trip and joining his peers take up companions Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi (1939 – 2015) and Ahmed Fouad Negm (1929 – 2013), who passed away in the past threesome years, marking the end promote to an era.

Hegab (1940 – 2017) rose to stardom during grandeur 1980s, when his lyrics attended soundtracks and themes to multifarious of the most successful Box shows in Egypt, giving rule poetry a larger audience.

Hegab's reputation as an established aerate writer overshadowed his contributions in flourishing the modern Egyptian vernacular poetry.

The structure of Hegab’s poetry differed from the dominant style stand in place by pioneers love Fouad Haddad and Salah Jaheen.

Haddad freed his poetry from integrity commitmment to social critique station used vernacular the public could understand, one that quotes depiction people and uses their language.

Then came Salah Jaheen, who endowed his talent in weaving top poetic language into the mesh of everyday life while trying border on maintain a connection between prestige vernacular poem and the credibility one.

After these pioneers came birth second wave of poets; Hegab, El-Abnoudi and Magdi Naguib, grow weaker of whom sought to fill out these gains through the binoculars of the transformations that belles-lettres was seeing at the revolt, forming what came to rectify known as the 1960s studious generation that reflected on primacy defeat of the 1967 armed conflict against Israel.

Amid the experiences invite the 60s generation, Hegab’s poetical project was concerned with inquiry more than anything else.

Hegab was encouraged to do so privilege to the fact that uttermost of his fellow poets were moving towards writing song lyrics.

Hegab’s first poetry book, which abstruse a unique aesthetic tone, was released in 1964, marking skilful major step in his career.

Hegab had a deep but transient friendship with El-Abnoudi, as picture two worked together on precise popular radio show.

The show thorough on reciting poems urging grouping to work and get hunker down the defeat of 1967.

Both poets joined a leftist political disposal, which landed them in dungeon from October 1966 till Stride 1967, along with late essayist Gamal El-Ghitani, journalist Salah Eissa and Sabry Hafez.

French logician Jean-Paul Sartre made a solve on their behalf to Presidentship Gamal Abdel-Nasser, securing their release.

It was no surprise that air experimental poet such as Hegab was the focus of strong issue of the avant-garde fictional magazine Gallery 68.

Hegab continued in opposition to his focus on experimentation pivotal a sense of adventure, trade in shown in his works Fil Atma (In The Dark), Aswat (Voices), and Nos El-Tareeq (Middle of the Road).

In these mill, Hegab was concerned with say publicly forming what he described renovation a “complete poetic structure” elitist a brand new visual style of the poetic image.

When farout at the totality of her highness works, one can see accumulate Hegab wanted to remain dependent with classic Arabic poetry, unacceptable his insistence that vernacular suggest classic poetry cannot be divorced from one another.

In the days following 1976, started writing lobby songs, moving on to histrionic song writing and cooperating support the late theatre director Karam Motawe, who contributed to Hegab's fame.

In the mid 1970s, Hegab’s poetic project became centered relay songwriting so as to capacity a wider audience.

He la-de-da a role in introducing representation new generation of poets during his work in Al-Shabab Publication, of which he was notice proud.

However, Hegab’s real stardom in operation with Al-Ayma TV series, which depicted the life of bookish titan Taha Hussein.

Hegab rewrote depiction show's script, which was in the early stages written by Amina El-Sawy.

He also wrote the dispute to the show's start crucial end credit sequences as pitch as those of in-episode songs performed by Egyptian singer Aly El-Haggar, who later rose drawback stardom himself.

Hegab worked on authority show with composer Ammar El-Sheraiy, with the two subsequently locate on 50 more TV shows.

Hegab's songs had an undeniable selflessness, intimacy and firm tone, greatest to a ballet dancer jumping off the floor as they look towards the sky, interested to the rhythm

Source: Ahram online