Tuesday, May 16, 2006

News at Eleven: "I am free," Mr. [Ahmed Fouad] Negm

said, as he scratched his head with long, carefully cut fingernails. "I am not afraid of anybody because I do not want anything from anyone."

And then, looking down from his rooftop perch upon a pile of rotting trash, where children, dogs and donkeys competed for scraps, he lamented what has become of Egypt.

from The New York Times: A Poet Whose Political Incorrectness Is a Crime

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