Thursday, December 4, 2008

He did not write it !!

It was announced and of course highlighted lately in Egyptian Media that President Mubarak has written the forward of a French book about Um Kalthoum translated in to Arabic !!??
The forward of French that book is written by both President Mubarak and Omar Al Sherif.
I do not doubt about Al Sherif but I have my doubts about Mubarak !!
Since when he writes forwards in books !!?? Mubarak can't do it.

I doubt that he can write in Arabic those words on his own :

Um Kalthoum managed with her art to reach for the top and crowned on the hearts and minds of the people and thus she opened for herself the gates of eternity !!

The absence of Um Kalthoum was not except the first stage from the series of her stability in the human conscious !! And that her creativity was a like a revival to the creativity of the Egyptian artist through time !!

Who really wrote those words !!?? They are not his ??

Mubarak is not like Nasser or Sadat or even President Mohamed Naguib.He did not even showed interest like them in anything cultural or artistic like they in their time. I mean his only relation to the cultural or the artistic scene in Egypt is attending the terrible Operates organized in the national days praising him and when the NDP gather bunch of the hypocrite actors and artists in some boring meeting in some event. He did not reveal in his interviews about whether he watches the cinema or listens to the Music ,at least music , he has not said for once that he loved to hear Thuma chanting in his lonely time in the air bases in 1960s !! For God Sake I can’t forget how he was sitting not enjoying his time when Amr Diab was singing from 2 years ago or even this year in the EAF day when Mohamed Mounir sang “Yunis” in front of him !!??

President Nasser wrote several books and he showed his interest and wide knowledge in culture "despite he used to imprison intellectuals".

He wrote three books “I hope this is the right arrangement: :

  • The Journals of Palestine war 1948 “1955”
  • In the Quest of Freedom. “1959”
  • The Philosophy of the revolution.

Nasser was addicted to Thuma and used to attend her concerts every Thursday of course before the revolution , after the revolution Thuma was the big star of the revolution annual gala parties. Already Nasser understood Music well besides being a dictator, I mean he knew how to use his powers in a good way when he wondered when Abdel Wahab and Thuma would work together in one single song “They hated so much” and thus “Enta Omri” was born. Of course Abdel Wahab was clever enough to complete his masterpieces with Thuma.Nasser was a fan of cinema and he had his own home video collection.

President Sadat was well known author. He founded “Al Gomhouria” newspaper in the 1950s and was in direct contact with journalists and intellectuals.

He wrote 10 books :

  • My son , this is your Uncle Gamal.
  • 30 months in Jail “about his experience in the jail
  • The people’s base .
  • Unknown Pages.
  • The Complete story of the revolution.
  • The meaning of the national unity.
  • Towards a new revival.
  • Revolt on the Nile. “1957 and President Nasser wrote its forward”
  • Those I have known “Written in 1981 ,its forward was by Jimmy Carter and it was published in 1984”
  • The Search for the self

He loved music and Cinema. He sang to Jihan El-Sadat in her birthday a famous Farid Al-Atrash song which Jihan thinks till now that he sang it even better than Farid !! He was also huge fan to cinema whether the local or the Hollywood one , he was big fan to the western films . He once praised a film by Farid Shawaky for its moral message. He did not hide this on the contrary.

President Naguib showed his wonderful writing skills in his fantastic and sad autobiography. Already the man had all those years to read and learn more and more in his exile.

But Mubarak !!?? Nada !!

I do not know if he thinks that showing this part of his life will make him look weak or even ignorant because he can’t write like the previous presidents.

Look the president should not be an author or a journalist but at least to know what is going in his culture !! I wonder Why he is insisting on dehumanizing himself !!

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