Thursday 05/December/2024 – 03:31 AM
Within the framework of the cultural activities of the Ministry of Culture, and in a new cultural evening from the Ahmed Abdel Muti Hegazy Salon evenings, the House of Arab Poetry will hold the Six Wasila Creativity Center, behind Al-Azhar Mosque – affiliated with the Cultural Development Fund sector, at seven in the evening on Sunday, December 8, an evening by Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Sunna. …Poetry is our appointment.
Poetry is our appointment within the activities of the Ministry of Culture in the House of Arab Poetry
It hosts the critic and academic Youssef Nofal, the poet Samir Darwish, the poet and academic Sherine Al-Adawi, and the journalist Mai Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Sunnah. It also hosts radio personality Hikmat Al-Sherbini and the poet Younis Abu Sabaa to recite Abu Sunnah’s poems, and the salon is managed by the writer Ahmed Siraj.
The late poet and great radio broadcaster Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Sunna was born on March 15, 1937. He graduated from the Faculty of Arab Studies – Al-Azhar University – in 1964, and received an honorary fellowship degree in writing from the University of Iowa, USA. He worked as a political editor at the State Information Service, then a program presenter in 1976 on the Egyptian Radio’s Cultural Program Radio, formerly the Second Programme. In 1995, he served as Director General of Al Program Cultural Radio and rose to the position of Undersecretary in 1999, then Vice President of the Radio’s Cultural Network, and in March 2001 he was appointed Vice President of Egyptian Radio. He is considered the most prominent poet of the sixties generation, and the last poet of romantic realism in Egypt. He has published 12 poetry collections, two poetic plays, 10 critical studies and poetic formulations of one hundred poems in Armenian poetry throughout the ages. The great poet and broadcaster has won many awards, the most recent of which was the Nile Prize in Literature in 2024, for which the House of Arab Poetry nominated him.
Abu Sunna left our world on November 10, 2024, at the age of 87, after a giving journey full of creativity.
Poet and journalist Sameh Mahjoub, director of the House of Arab Poetry, said: With the passing of Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Sunna, Arabic poetry lost one of its greatest sources, as Abu Sunna’s poetic text is distinguished by its superior ability to open wide windows in language, metaphor, imagination, and rhythm. This is without losing its long extensions in the poetic heritage of the Arabic poem with its classical foundations, especially in its innate tendency to sing and recite.
He continued: Abu Sunna and his generation of sixty-somethings in Egypt and the Arab world have come a reasonable distance in localizing and establishing the activating text on the vertical line of development of Arabic poetry.
