Nabil Hamid, The Satirical Story Writer and Egyptian National Concerns.

 

 

Written by:Awny Seif, Cairo

 

The Egytian writer Nabil Hamid singled out the satirical very short story in order to put his hand through its terse words on the real feelings and concerns of the homeland, including cultural, linguistic, ideological and sociological aspects.

Ernest Hemingway previously wrote a very short story, "for sale a child's shoes were never worn." Few words, short but with countless pain and aches. And here we are about Egyptian Hemingway who's writing the one word committed to society's concerns, social and cultural, ideological and linguistic.

He is not only a story writer, but also a passionate poet, who adores the Egyptian language, simply chooses his vocabulary, far from the lexical vocabulary that has no life on Egyptian tongues. A first-class Egyptian poet sings in his poety and  lines of his stories with Nile and it's flood, and boasts of his Egyptian and ancestral civilization.

In this wonderful opportunity, I will share with the generous reader a taste of some of Professor Nabil Hamid's very short stories.

 

1- How do you escape from murderers?

He said:

Make yourself unfit to mediate, accompany, work, earn or benefit of any kind just like you live for yourself!

2- How do you go to killers on your foot?

He said:

- Make yourself fit for any mediation, company, work, gain or benefit of any kind as if you are living for the whole world!

3- Financial Compound.

He said:

He'll open an account. He will urge all his friends to provide him and fill it with money. No one will be able to reveal his accounts. Disclosure laws and confidentiality of accounts here are very difficult to hack!

4-  Bedouin's Damn.

He said:

This curse is the desertification of every human, transplant, animal, until the subsoil of the soil becomes deficient until it runs out!

5- Women's Revolution.

He said:

The next revolution will give rise to the hands of women and girls if they are free from the gaze of invaders and be sports practitioners!

6- Street Vendors' Law.

He said:

A- Division of the area among them

B- No One Exceeds the other...

C- With customers... Each one with his intelligence.

7- Social Relationship.

He said:

I was looking for someone to associate with and relate to me and it was hard to find a compass and a way for the compass to work on it.

8- Historical symbol.

He said:

One flops in the story of history and symbols

By imposing one spit on the whole past, he could be held accountable.

9- Arabic Teachers.

He said:

They conveyed to the young people the experiences of Bedouin life, and they thought that this would lead them back and give their souls patience .The youngmen become murderers and profane.

10- You are different.

He said:

Everyone has a unique genetic name and sequence, will not repeated again in this 

 biochemical life on Earth.

Since this life is created, and now and in the future... You're the one.

Unique and unmatched

11- indiscriminate.

He said:

In preparation for the opening of the school donated by Her Highness, the entire area is planned urbanically and all indiscriminate monuments have been erased which since the beginning of the twentieth century.

12-  Demon's Hope.

She said:

This defect and enough is enough... No someone comes to tell me: Who is said?

We are minority, and nobody attacked us.our houses, it's lying ,

Our Lord is good enough. Expose yourself, who works like a rabble.

And the werewolves, they analyze another's looting, his blood!!

God will never forgive them.

13- Looking at the Sky.

In a moonshot night, its stars shimmy in the darkness of Earth's night.Stars

roundabout for millions of years. They wanted to exaggerate his vision and human longing.

Someone asked: Did they let us to look at the heavens like that?

He asked them: Did the heavens authorize someone and give him a catalogue showing the qualities of looking.

 They didn't like this reply.

He shouted at them: "Whoever has an instrument of monopoly over looking at heaven."

I'm here waiting!

14- Switch.

He said:

History more than 80 centuries old and scrub

His contradictions cannot be resolved on a day and night. Where are the mindful people?

15- Good Grandfathers.

He wondered:

Why are all vendors and smugglers of antiquities a good predecessor?

16- protection.

In the Civil State, no one can be protected except for the person to perform his duty according to criteria that everyone knows!

17- Country: kidnapping and conducting.

He said:

 kidnapping and conducting ,Not Making Societies , Stability, progress or future

18- Strong Campaign.

He said:

My friend: You shouldn't blame the poor to his poverty.

After I got rich, you forgot you were someone of these poor. So why are you hurt so harshly?

19- Acid.

One day on this earth, they were throwing the man into a cement mixer,

To produce a more humane and emotionally loaded cement blend according to its owner

They said from the very beginning:

This little can has a huge elephant!

And who couldn't believe he'd be thrown in the Acid!

20-  Impulsive as God created him.

She said:

Be not impulsive on the Facebook and Shares

Before you know the dimensions, details and sources

He wrote:

Ok and now who is impulsive and his attention is vivid ,Lord created him like that!

He knows now:

They're looking for this type to put in the mixer of

cement to produce vital and human cement!

21- They kill.

He said:

They kill poets, creators, journalists.

They may be imprisoned them forever.

22- Drink!

He said:

They put their guy in the organisation!

Drink!

23- Arabic language.

The foolish has a monopoly on it and its staff.

Can you now search and root for the aesthetics of real and the day language?

24- Invasion.

He said:

Invaders occupy land, language and conscience

25- Internal Defeat.

She said:

Lose your ability to be in the maps of life in legitimacy and humanity.

It makes you one of the patients with internal defeat.

26- Language.

He said:

Yes: the invaders beat them and made them move away from their symbols and use an untongued tongue.

But now they can't keep them out of their longing for their original tongue and their running words like a flowing river.

27- Resistance to language's invasion

He said:

Let the linguists come forward and draft the rules.

For what people use from vocabulary,

Synthesizers and stylistic and linguistic sounds in

Every guarded country(Egypt )is the language that

We talk, we use it and we express our need and

Our longings.

The history language is for museums of language and history.

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In a story you find Nabil Hamid shows the isolation of intellectual man or writer at this time where relationships, corrupt or individual interests are intertwined.

Another story warns against unhelpful relationships. Here, the writer formulates a sociological theory in dealing with the interlinkages that an individual faces in his daily life.

And you find him in another story that implicitly sings his civilization as Egyptian, with assets that dive into the roots of history. That's when he writes "The Bedouin curse" The Bedouin mentality is unproductive and here is the Egyptian who learns from his civilization the whole world disadvantages this mentality that weakened all the vivid thoughts.

In another story, he advocates the liberation of women from the predominantly masculine gaze of invaders. Professor Nabil Hamid, here is an Egyptian interested in Egyptian women's issues, and invites them to stand out and succeed.

"Street Vendors' Law" is a very short story. It has many social principles that poor street vendors possess. They also have the principles that they respect and the norms that they follow in their daily lives.

In the story "You Are Different", he talks about the uniqueness of man in his genetic sequence, and summarizes genetic science in a message to the reader "You are unique."

The story of "Looking at Sky" is a philosophical argument is on not the freedom to look at sky, but on his freedom before those who entrust themselves with the monopoly of opinions and direct the people, and this is where the writer formulates an important principle, namely the freedom of the individual to see and not to acquiesce to those who attribute to themselves the possession of opinions or the absolute truth.

Conclusion.

Professor Nabil Hamid's language has his own Egyptian perspective. In many of his writings, he adores the spoken Egyptian language and is away from linguistically dead words. Professor Hamid considers, this is an uncontested fact, that the Egyptian has unique in a language different from that of all the Arabs around us. This language is the result of a long and ancient heritage, the Pharaonic and Coptic heritage that dyed the language of Egyptians and made it different from the language of neighbourhood.