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Lot Essay
This is a portrait of the journalist and writer Mohammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Helmy, known "Salah Jahin". Jahin was hugely influential in the realm of modern Egyptian culture. He was born in Shobra district, Cairo on 1930 to a middle-class family. After studying law in Cairo University he started working as a cartoonist for the Egyptian weekly magazine Rose Al-Yousef year later, he moved to the new magazine Sabah Al-Khair, becoming its editor-in-chief, then he joined Al-Ahram.
Salah Jahin and Fouad Haddad together helped develop Egyptian colloquial poetry. His group of young poets coined the term shi'r al-ammiya or "Arabic colloquial poetry" in 1961. Prior to that poetry in colloquial Egyptian Arabic was regarded as a folkloric and low art produced by and for the uneducated masses.
Jahin wrote several plays for the puppet theatre, but was also known for his nationalist and patriotic songs that marked the revolutionary era of Gamal Abdel Nasser, many of which were performed by the famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Jahin was awarded the Egyptian Order of Science and Arts of the First Class in 1961, the date of production of the present lot. He died in 1986 at the age of 55.
Another work from this edition is is illustrated in Mona Khaznidar (ed.), Adam Henein, Milan, 2005, p. 66.
Salah Jahin and Fouad Haddad together helped develop Egyptian colloquial poetry. His group of young poets coined the term shi'r al-ammiya or "Arabic colloquial poetry" in 1961. Prior to that poetry in colloquial Egyptian Arabic was regarded as a folkloric and low art produced by and for the uneducated masses.
Jahin wrote several plays for the puppet theatre, but was also known for his nationalist and patriotic songs that marked the revolutionary era of Gamal Abdel Nasser, many of which were performed by the famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Jahin was awarded the Egyptian Order of Science and Arts of the First Class in 1961, the date of production of the present lot. He died in 1986 at the age of 55.
Another work from this edition is is illustrated in Mona Khaznidar (ed.), Adam Henein, Milan, 2005, p. 66.