News at Eleven: "My relationship with women starts

with my mother, who encouraged me to read and write poetry. I have a lot of respect for women. A poet who lives without a woman," [Farouk] Shousha says, "is a poet who is divorced from the universe. In the absence of women, there is no real life, only a desert.["]

from Al-Ahram Weekly: Farouk Shousha: Cry my beloved language

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