Ehab Aziz

Freitag, 7. Dezember 2012

The Egyptian Revolutions

September Tunes
by Salah Jaheen (December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986) has had a singular effect on development of colloquial Arabic poetry in Egypt.

Art work by Ehab Aziz

The film stopped, frozen

Now we can ponder the image

No detail missing.

Everything speaks, articulate

wordless, voiceless.

The instant death pushed down –

gentle yet omnipotent, one desultory day –

On a button in this kingdom

The film stopped, frozen.

Let the projectionist rewind the scene

I want to see myself in the old days — young

among the ranks of the revolution — proud,

Impressed by neither king nor father

I want to see again and remember

Why one of my blows hit,

one of them missed

And one stopped the film, froze it.

The projectionist said: No return

Live as long as you have breath enough to live

And look and see.

Where the young sit — row after row –

Where the young sit in the cinema whistling

No stopping.

Where the young sit there are a thousand million

Impressed by neither king nor father.

Look at them

And you will remember

Mittwoch, 28. November 2012

The last words of Spartacus – by Amal Donkol

Artwork (2009 - 2012) by Ehab Aziz

Amal Donkol (1940-1983)
One of Egypt’s great poets was a rebel and was taken as a political prisoner many times in the 60s for his views, and was let out by Sadat in the mid 70s. He died of cancer at the age of 43. The translation is not as professional as it should, but it reflects the true meanings of the Arabic original.

The last words of Spartacus

Glory to Lucifer … worshiped by the wind
Who said No to the face of those who said Yes
Who taught Man to tear down the evanescence
Who said No … so he did not die

And remained a soul eternally in pain
I am hanging from the morning gallows
My forehead is bowing to death
Because it did not bow while I was living

O’ brothers and sisters passing through the main square with your heads bent low
Gliding towards the end of evening hours, down ‘Alexander the Great avenue’
Do not be ashamed
Do not be ashamed and raise your eyes toward me
Because you are hanging there beside me
Hanging next to me on Caesar’s gallows

Raise your eyes to me
For maybe if you do, and your eyes meet the death in my eyes
The extinction within me might smile
Because you raised your heads up if only once

Sisyphus
The rock is no longer on his shoulders
It is now carried by those who are born in the dorms of the slaves
While the sea
The sea is like the desert, does not quench the thirst

For only tears quench the thirst of those who dare to say No
So raise your eyes up to the hanging rebel
For you will end up like him tomorrow
And kiss your wives
Kiss your wives right here in the middle of the road
For tomorrow it is in this very place that you will perish

Bowing is bitter
And the spider on the necks of men is knitting their fall
So kiss your wives
For I have not kissed mine goodbye
And if you see my child whom I left behind in her arms
Missing an arm
Teach him to bow

God did not forgive Lucifer when he said No
And the gentle hearted and the kind are the ones destined to inherit the earth at the end
Because they do not get hanged
So teach him to bow
There is no escape
And do not dream of a world full of happiness

For after every Caesar that dies
Is born another Caesar
And behind every rebel that dies
Is pointless sadness and wasted tears.
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I love you EGYPT

Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2012

WIE EIN SCHAUSPIELER

GEDENKE, du bist hienieden wie ein Schauspieler, der die Rolle spielen muss, die der Dichter ihm bestimmt hat, sei sie nun kurz oder lang.

Wenn er dir die Rolle eines Bettlers zugeteilt hat, so versuche diese Gestalt gut zu verkörpern.

Ebenso ist es mit der Rolle eines Krüppels, eines Königs oder eines einfachen Bürgers.

DENN ES IST DEINE AUFGABE, die dir zugeteilte Rolle gut zu spielen; eines anderen Aufgabe aber ist es, sie auszuwählen.

Epiktet

Montag, 3. September 2012

Fest der Kulturen 2012 - Landshut

Ausstellung in der Residenz - Landshut
Beginn: FR, 21.09.2012 12.00 UHR
Ende: SA, 22.09.2012 22.00 UHR

Ägypten
Ansichten und Einsichten
Photography & Art work
Ehab Aziz

Das zweite Landshuter Fest der Kulturen mit internationaler Gastronomie, Musik, Shows, Workshops für Groß und Klein entführt die Landshuter Bürger und Gäste auf eine exotische Entdeckungs- und Erlebnisreise.

Multimedia Diashow - Photographie bei Ehab Aziz

Das Fest der Kulturen wird durch die Schirmherrschaft des Oberbürgermeisters der Stadt Landshut unterstützt und schafft in der Altstadt vor dem Rathaus ein Ort der Begegnung begeisterter Menschen unterschiedlicher Kulturen, Hautfarben und Altersgruppen.

Digital Artwork bei Ehab Aziz

Der Migrationsbeirat und die Koordinationsstelle der Stadt Landshut veranstalten mit großer und dankbarer Unterstützung von Vereinen, Migranteninstitutionen und aktive Bürger Landshuts dieses Fest der Kulturen.

Digital Artwork bei Ehab Aziz

Ab 14 Uhr: Kultur- und Familienprogramm

Mit Ausstellungen, Tanzshows und –kursen, Chor, Folklore, Basteln, Märchen, Kinderspielen, Sprachkurs, Tanzen, Film, Lesecke und Musik mit dem Chino Augusto aus Peru am Freitag Abend und Kim Azas aus Benin am Samstag Abend.