La primavera egiziana del 2011, poesia e rivoluzione
(The Egyptian spring of 2011, poetry and revolution)
in La rivista di Arablit, a. I, n. 1, giugno 2011, pp. 23-34.
Poetry has animated Egyptian revolutionaries during their protests ever since the huge anti-British insurgency witnessed by Egypt in 1919. Just like in the past, in fact, the demonstrations that took place in central Cairo’s Taḥrīr square on the 25th of January 2011 were once again supported by poets longing to express their mistrust towards now former president Ḥusnī Mubārak’s regime. This article offers an overview of those authors and their poems, also providing an account of historical and literary reference allowing deeper understanding of their poetry.
