An evening with Biram Al-Tounsi

Collection title

ERTU Collection

ID

ERU00575

Source

ERTU (EG)

First broadcast date

1995

Production year

1995

Abstract

Special evening dedicated to Mohamed Al-Tounsi Biram, the poet of the people. Despite the distance that separated him from Egypt, his pen wrote only for his country and about his country. His readers loved in his poems and jadzals only these elements that bound him to his homeland. Exiled in France by the Sultan Ahmad Fouad in 1920 because of his Jadzal entitled "The squash of the Sultan" (the squash represents the image of political impotence and physical disgrace), he was allowed to return in his country only in 1938. This absence has not prevented him from following by far the news of his country. On his return, he wrote and composed for the most famous artists, such as Farid El Atrash, Assmahan and Oum Kalthoum.

Type

video

Production companies

• ERTU Collection - Own production

Broadcaster

ERTU - Channel 2

Audiovisual form

Portrait

Personalities

• Al-Tounsi Biram

Primary theme

Art, Culture and Knowledge

Secondary themes

• Art, Culture and Knowledge / Writing, graphic culture
• Society and way of life / Education, teaching
• Society and way of life / Migrations

Credits / Cast

• Shalabi Souhir - Speaker

Period of events

• 1995

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Cairo

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

28m50