{"id":2218,"date":"2025-08-27T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moudev.com\/en\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:11:24","slug":"https-babmsr-com-en-2025-08-27-frogroceries-to-poetry-the-story-of-awad-qishta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/https-babmsr-com-en-2025-08-27-frogroceries-to-poetry-the-story-of-awad-qishta\/","title":{"rendered":"From groceries to poetry: The story of Awad Qishta, the forgotten poet of Dakahlia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;To you, shining from your tower in the distance, giving and not taking, like all great ones&#8230; O poet of Egypt, buried in a world of falsehood, beneath the rubble of oppression&#8230; I salute you as you struggle to live, forgetting the bitterness of life in moments of creativity. And to you there&#8230; where you live in the shadows, shining the spotlight on others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awad! O poet of Egypt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, literary history in Egypt will awaken and regret every moment it did not appreciate you. Your poems, your verses, and your approach to life will become a playground for scholars and seekers of literary pleasure. You will die, yes, but the poet Awad will not die. You will remain in the conscience of this nation as a piece of its joy, its feelings, and its great pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until we meet, and we may not meet, I salute you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salah Hafez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To you, shining from your tower in the distance, giving and not taking, like all great ones&#8230; O poet of Egypt, buried in a world of falsehood, beneath the rubble of oppression&#8230; I salute you as you struggle to live, forgetting the bitterness of life in moments of creativity. And to you there&#8230; where you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lower-egypt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev1.reeras.site\/babmsr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}