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Salah Jaheen

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Between the start of the 1952 Revolution 52  and the Naksa of 1967, Salah Jaheen wrote for Abdel Halim Hafez at least six songs, most of which were composed by Kamal al-Tawil. Their titles varied from Ehna Al Shaab (We are the People), Bustan Al Ishtirakiya (The Garden of Socialism), Bel Ahdan (With Embraces), Sura (Photograph), and Al Masuliyah (Responsibility). Both Jaheen and Abdel Halim are considered children of the new era, both opening their eyes to the Free Officers' Revolution. The poet from Cairo whose father was a chancellor, and the orphan singer from the rural city of Sharkia did not make their glory on the stages of the pashas.

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Yasser Abdul Latif writes in his book On Residence and Travel about this phase: “At that same age, Salah Jaheen, the city’s poet torn within himself, was writing to the state Soviet songs about“ Marble statues on the canal and an opera in every Arab village!!” And he writes to himself: "Al-Khader passed on his horse by my side .. I put on my vest with worn out reed.. but the horse is drained and the dawn rises .. the dawn was green .. and the ground was pink ostrich feathers .. The citadel is black and the houses white.. In every house there is a safe .. and the safe is full of women’s lips.”

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