Exploring the Tone of Human Rights in Ahmed Negm's Prisoner File and The Important Announcement

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Abstract

This study is concerned with examining the tone of human rights in Ahmed Negm's two poems Prisoner File and The Important Announcement. The human rights are the study's heart, mind and soul of everyone in the world. Those poems are strongly debate on the poet's sufferings in terms of human rights and struggles for freedom of speech. Both consist a universal cases and crisis intentionally violating of human rights by various Egyptian regimes. Ahmed Negm is an Egyptian poet, journalist and human rights activist, whose poetry was highly critical of the oppressive regime in Egypt during the political unrest in that country. Themes of freedom, social justice and the fight for human dignity are prevalent in his work. The poet was expressing freely his own experience of self-discovering, therefore he has put in prison without real reason as a punishment of freedom of speech. The subject of human rights is not new because it is closely related by the human being. They face a critical test, serious questions and the issues of complex problems within the Arab world. Those are surely making life a living situation because the poet's fight to safeguard that right for freedom for others. The violation of human rights and terrible treatment are very problematic especially by considering the poet a suspect without proper evidence. However, he depicted the situation in disturbing poem before and after the prison. The fragmentation of society is so related in postmodernism in the world particularly in the East. This theoretical framework and the postcolonial theory are depended for the study.