Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt’s “poet of the people” whose biting political verses inspired rebellion and taunted successive regimes for decades, died Tuesday in Cairo at age 84. Negm’s colloquial prose ...

Revolutionary Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm died yesterday at the age of 84. Netizens from across the Arab world mourn his death. Referred to as Egypt's “Poet of the People,” Negm, whose poems were ...

CAIRO -- His verses spoke of the sufferings of ordinary people. And they struck a powerful chord. Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm, beloved as a colloquial but eloquent voice of the nation for more than ...

CAIRO — Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt’s “poet of the people” whose sharply political verses in colloquial Arabic skewered the country’s leaders and inspired protesters from the 1970s through the current ...

CAIRO – Egypt's best known satirical poet, Ahmed Fouad Negm, has died at the age of 84. The state media said he died early on Tuesday. Known as the "poet of the people," Negm's use of colloquial ...

Egyptians are mourning the death of the man known as the “poet of the people” who challenged successive military leaders and whose work inspired young generations to push for change. Ahmed Fouad Negm ...

Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt’s “poet of the people” whose sharply political verses in colloquial Arabic skewered the country’s leaders and inspired protesters from the 1970s through the current uprisings, ...

CAIRO — Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt’s ‘‘poet of the people’’ whose sharply political verses in colloquial Arabic skewered the country’s leaders and inspired protesters from the 1970s through the current ...