The unknown text: Mahmoud Darwish in Egypt, author: Sayyid Mahmoud

The poet's ecstasy did not stop for a long time, and he found himself more than once surrounded by the shadows of the romantic hero involved in very realistic scenes, which doubled his responsibility towards the cause and towards Cairo, the "wounded" city from repeated defeats. And with the excess of the tenderness he showed, she wanted to remind him every day of his awaited role. Aside from the political aspect, the book highlights the way poetry and prose were forming in Mahmoud Darwish, by showcasing the early models of the poet's prose writings that developed later, prompting critics to address what is called the poetic "prose" in his work. His literary articles, published for the first time in this book, offer an opportunity to get to know Darwish's overall artistic visions during his time in Cairo. In them, he developed his famous idea about the necessity of avoiding deadly love, and they also show his aversion to reducing his experience to revolutionary poetry. They reveal his perceptions of the negatives and positives of poetry festivals, which grew in order to emphasize the resistant role of poetry, and most of the articles also bitterly satirize the state of poetry in the Arab world.