Watching the masses of Arab people protest in solidarity with their brethren in Egypt and Tunisia, I am reminded that we are all the same and that our trouble are the same where the plight is common....get rid of the dictator and end oppression.
This plight has never been expressed in a better fashion that the way Mahmoud Darwish expressed it with his words in his infamous Sajil Ana 'Araby. It comes to mind every time I think Arabs are different from each other...the more different we become the more things stays the same. As hundreds of thousand Egyptians march tomorrow morning at the Tahrir Square, millions of hearts in the Arab world will be with them and all eyes will be on Egypt.
There are many great pieces that channels Arabs frustration with the status quote since the 70s poets like Ahmad Matar, Darwish, and Foad Nijim have been shaming the Arab regimes and calling them names. Nothing changed until now. For fans of Arabic poetry and of this world wide famed poet, I present this poem with the people of Egypt on my mind as their plight is too real.
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