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          Martin Sehlapo spent time at Robben Island and he wrote poetry.!

          Hesham Al-Gakh uses poetry to express frustration.

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          CAIRO: When it comes to criticizing the current political and social conditions in Egypt, Egyptians tend to get creative.

          Bestseller novelists such as Ahmed Mourad or Alaa El Aswany or popular collo- quial poets such as Hisham El Gakh were often discussed with ridicule, in some.

        1. The paper critically examines the city/country narratives in the poetry of the Iraqi poet, Badr Shaker Al-Sayyab and T.S. Eliot in order to.
        2. Martin Sehlapo spent time at Robben Island and he wrote poetry.
        3. Some years before , Hisham Al-Gakh had made it to considerable fame with very straightforward colloquial poetry that addressed the worries and frustrations.
        4. This book is a chronicle of the progress, the upheavals, the difficult periods in the work and the expansion of the UMCA in its work in Central Africa.
        5. From using props in demonstrations against soaring prices such as plates, spoons and pots, to forming the Cairo Complaints Choir, in a bid to sing their sorrows away.

          Recently, Hesham Al-Gakh helped revive a forgotten art form, that's been used since ancient Egypt, to express people's frustration and pain; poetry.



          Al-Gakh's now famous poem "Juha" harshly criticizes the deterioration of Egypt's political and social sphere and vividly expresses the people's frustrations.

          "It's a horrible feeling to realize that your country is weak, your voice is weak, your opinion is weak, to realize that if you sell your soul, your body, your pen and your name, you still wouldn't be able to afford a loaf of bread," the poem says.



          "When you want to heal a wound, the first th