My Radio Interview (Spain)
Thank you, Pippa Jones, of Talk Radio Europe (Spain), for this sensitive, sprawling interview, touching on: the Egypt that I grew up in and now, the role of poetry in bearing witness to political upheaval, censorship, religiosity and much else.
As I discuss in this 25 minute conversation, I began writing poetry and aphorisms as a teenager, more than twenty years ago. Growing up in Egypt, a predominantly Muslim culture, I "instinctively rebelled against what I perceived as a hypocritical religiosity, and took refuge in what might be described as philosophical literature."
I was eighteen years old when I began to guess that I, too, might be a writer and "the change stunned me." Listen, here, to my story and life in poetry:
I hope you enjoy this frank and open conversation :)
Art by Iraqi painter, Ayad Alkadhi
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You listened to a 25 minute interview in 2 minutes?!