Salah Jahin
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Born | Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt | December 25, 1930
Died | April 21, 1986 Cairo, Egypt | (aged 55)
Occupation | Poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist |
Language | Egyptian Arabic |
Nationality | Egyptian |
Years active | 1955-1986 |
Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (محمد صلاح الدين بهجت أحمد حلمى, IPA: .
Life and career
Jaheen was born in Shobra district, Cairo in 1930 to a middle-class family. He studied law in Cairo University. In 1955, he started working for the Egyptian weekly magazine "Rose al-Yousef" as a cartoonist. A year later, he moved to the new magazine "Sabah el-Khair" for which he became the editor-in-chief, then he joined Al-Ahram.
Together with
He wrote several plays for the
In addition to political poetry, Jahin's poems frequently contain
In 1965, Jaheen was awarded the Egyptian Order of Science and Arts of the First Class. He died in 1986 at the age of 55.
Works
As a poet
Ruba'iyat (Quatrains)
In 1963 Jaheen wrote his
In Egypt's Name
In 1971, Jaheen wrote "Ala Esm Masr" or "In Egypt's name", an
- "History may say what it wishes in Egypt’s name
- Egypt, for me, is the most beloved and most beautiful of things.
- I love her when she owns the earth, east and west.
- And I love her when she is down, wounded in a battle.
- I love her fiercely, gently and with modesty.
- I hate her and curse her with the passion of the lovesick.
- I leave her and flee down one path, and she remains in another .
- She turns to find me beside her in misfortune.
- My veins pulsating with a thousand tunes and rhythms.
- In Egypt's name."
Other books
His other books of colloquial poetry include:
- An al-qamar wa al-teen (1961).
- Qasaqis Waraq, (1966).
- Dawawin Salah Jahin, (1977).
- Angham Siptambirriyah, (1984).
Song writer
Jaheen wrote the
Political Cartoonist
Jahin was a witty political cartoonist, where his sketches of everyday life over the course of four decades "made people laugh and cry at the same time."[4] His drawings were a mainstay of Al-Ahram's daily editions form the1960s until his death in 1986, and at least two volumes published collections of his work in 1986,[5] and 2013.[6] Jahin's original sketches have also been exhibited.[7]
Trivia
A Google Doodle on 25 December 2013 commemorated Jahin's 83rd birth anniversary.[8]
References
- ^ .
- ISBN 978-0-521-48492-3. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ a b "April memories, April tunes". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2000-04-27. Archived from the original on 2006-03-13. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "سداسية صلاح جاهين الكاريكاتورية". الهلال. No. 4. 1988-04-01. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ Jahine, Salah (1988). سداسية صلاح جاهين الكاريكاتورية (in Arabic). دار المستقبل العربي.
- ^ Jahine, Salah (2013). صلاح جاهين - الأعمال الكاريكاتيرية الجزء الأول 1956-1962 (in Arabic). القاهرة: الهيئة المصرية العامة للكتاب.
- ^ "رسوم كاريكاتير نادرة لصلاح جاهين في معرض بالقاهرة". اندبندنت عربية (in Arabic). 2021-07-30. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ "Salah Jahin's 83rd Birthday". Google. 25 December 2013.
General References
- "Salah Jaheen". Egypt State Information Service. Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
- Salah Jahin form arabworldbooks
External links
- Salah Jahin.
- "Salah Jahin: Balzac holding Rodin's chisel". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2001-04-26. Archived from the original on 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2016-07-18.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Salah Jaheen at IMDb
- Salah Jahin's cartoons
- “Cigarette Ash”, trans. by Salma Harland, Arablit Quarterly (29 December 2021)