Saadi Yousef

Splendid Egypt, our mother, has come to the square
Splendid Egypt has unfurled to the wind her head scarf
And turned around as a banner fragrant with jasmine and gun powder
Splendid Egypt, our mother, has come to the square
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And you,
My lifetime comrade
Are there
As I had known you
With your steps ablaze in the Liberation Square
How splendid the struggle is!
How inglorious restfulness is!
Splendid Egypt, our mother, has come to the square

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I see you there
With the speckled Kufiyyah
And the Palestinian flag
And the dream which you nurtured,
Generation after generation
In Egupt, s lands
O Ahmad Fuad Najm
Here it is: the day of resurrection
Splendid Egypt, our mother, has come to the square

London 30.01.2011