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Ahmed Fouad Negm was born on 22 May, 1929 in Sharqia, Egypt, is an Ahmad Fo'ad Negm popularly known as Elfagumi الفاجومي. Discover Ahmed Fouad Negm's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Vernacular poet
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 22 May, 1929
Birthday 22 May
Birthplace Sharqia, Egypt
Date of death 3 December, 2013
Died Place Cairo, Egypt
Nationality Egypt

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1929

Ahmad Fo'ad Negm (أحمد فؤاد نجم, ; 22 May 1929 – 3 December 2013), popularly known as Elfagumi الفاجومي, was an Egyptian vernacular poet.

Negm is well known for his work with Egyptian composer Sheikh Imam, as well as his patriotic and revolutionary Egyptian Arabic poetry.

Negm has been regarded as "a bit of a folk hero in Egypt."

Ahmed Fouad Negm was born in a small village north of Cairo, Egypt, to a family of fellahin.

His mother, Hanem Morsi Negm, was a housewife, and his father Mohammed Ezat Negm, a police officer.

Negm was one of seventeen brothers.

Like many poets and writers of his generation, he received his education at the religious Kutaab schools managed by El-Azhar.

He was six years old when his father died.

1936

He went to live with his uncle Hussein in Zagazig, but was placed in an orphanage in 1936 where he first met famous singer Abdel Halim Hafez.

1945

In 1945, at the age of 17, he left the orphanage and returned to his village to work as a shepherd.

Later, he moved to Cairo to live with his brother who eventually kicked him out only to return to his village again to work in one of the English camps while helping with guerilla operations.

After the agreement between Egypt and Britain, the Egyptian National Workers' Movement asked everyone in the English camps to quit their job.

Negm was then appointed by the Egyptian government as a laborer in mechanical workshops.

He was imprisoned for 3 years for counterfeiting form, during which he participated and won first place in a writing competition organized by the Supreme Council for the Arts.

He then published his first collection "Pictures from Life and Prison" in vernacular Egyptian Arabic and became famous after Suhair El-Alamawi introduced his book while he was still in prison.

After he was released, he was appointed as a clerk in the organization for Asian and African peoples.

He also became a regular poet on Egyptian radio.

Negm lived in a small room on the rooftop of a house in Boulaq el-Dakror neighborhood.

When he met singer and composer Sheikh Imam in Khosh Adam neighborhood, they became roommates and formed a famous signing duet.

Negm was also imprisoned several times due to his political views, particularly his harsh criticism of Egyptian presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak.

The residence of Ahmed Fouad Negm in the poorest neighborhoods of Cairo, Egypt, exposed him to the most talented professionals such as Sheikh Imam Eissa, impoverished poets and artists.

But, Sheikh Imam in particular compensated Negm for the earlier rejection by his orphanage-mate Abdel Halim Hafez.

1962

In 1962, Negm was introduced to Imam by a friend who believed that the two, poet Negm and composer Imam, could make a perfect duo.

On the first occasion, Negm noticed that Imam took over an hour to tweak the strings of the Oud before starting his first demonstration to the new guest.

Negm shouted "Allah" upon listening to Imam's singing and playing the Oud.

The blind Sheikh was equally longing for inspiring words of the sort Negm had.

That was the spark that lasted 30 years of concerted writing by Negm, composing by Imam, and singing by the two combined.

Negm was quick enough to sense that the blind Sheikh was a hidden treasure of Islamic literacy and music talent, and with his physical handicap, he could use the help of Negm's eyes and words.

Hence, Negm proposed to stay in Imam's residence.

As he recounted, his other rented room has properties worth 6 Egyptian pounds, thus if he threw away the key for his other room, the landlord was required three months before breaking into the room and possessing its content.

Negm took the risk, abandoned his rented room with its contents and stuck with Sheikh Imam from 1962 throughout 1995.

2005

He is the subject of the book A Homeland Called Desire (Merit House, Cairo, 2005) by Egyptian poet Rana al-Tonsi.

2007

In 2007, Negm was chosen by the United Nations Poverty Action as Ambassador of the poor.

2013

Ahmed Fouad Negm won the 2013 Prince Claus Awards for ‘Unwavering Integrity’.

In the early hours of 3 December 2013, Negm died at the age of 84 in Cairo.

Although he had been ill for a long time, publisher Mohamed Hashem said Negm sounded fine the day before his death, but remarked further that his voice was "a little heavy".

Negm's funeral took place in Al-Hussein Mosque, Cairo.