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The Summary of the Egyptian farmer in the contemporary and modern Egyptian literature workshop

The Land Center for Human Rights has witnessed the activation of the workshop panel discussion entitled, "The Egyptian farmer in the modern and contemporary Egyptian literature" which was attended by a number of writers, researchers, critics and political activists, on Thursday, 26 May 2011.
The workshop began with the first meeting, which was stressing on "the relationship between the peasant and authorities through literary works" and moderated by the researcher and historian (Abdel Aziz al-Jamal al-Din), and was also lectured by both the researcher and critic (Medhat Safwat), and the writer and critic (Ahmed Adel Alqdabi), and the discussions spotted on how the writers put the image of the countryside and farmers and their problems. Critic (Medhat Safwat) pointed out that novelists have taken refuge in popular culture as a body to provide the farmer working the land, and as a culture. They used the concept of a novel farmers to express their stories, which revolve around the farmer and his life, was the beginning of the novel "Zainab", and "The Diary of a vice in the countryside", whereas the farmer was an incident not a personality in "The Diary of a vice in the countryside", and the character present was the narrator or the same parliament member. The critic and novelist (Ahmed Adel Alqdabi), stressed on the concept of success in studies and literature is still a cloudy vague concept and he tried to make some perceptions of this concept, and Alqdabi emphasized that the relationship between the farmer and the government marred by an atmosphere of mistrust on the part of the farmer who is suffering from a strange and suspicious policy by the government, for the pricing of agricultural crops and determine the areas planted. Probably writers or a large number of them can't realize the relationship between the farmer and the government in accordance with the model prevailing government's relationship with ordinary people in the city, there is no privacy in their vision of the relationship between the government and the farmer, even though the areas of fear of government authorities in the countryside are more because of ignorance of rights and the law.
The second session, which was centered on "the social scene in the Egyptian countryside through the literary text," and administered by the researcher and critic (Hala Madkour) and it occurs mainly by the critic (Dr. Sayed Ibrahim) Ex Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Beni Suef, and the critic (professor Medhat El Gayar) ,professor of modern Arabic literature and a member of the Governing Council of the Federation of Egyptian writers. (Dr. Sayed Ibrahim) stressed that the image of the jar carrier is a repeated image in the poetry scene of Mahmoud Hassan Ismail, where the Nile inspired them. And he spotted on a number of scenes in "The days", especially scenes of the book, and viewed the prevailing morality. He stressed that this context represents ethics completely naked, where there is hypocrisy and flattery, and others. (Dr Medhat El Gayar) spoke at the outset that the novel was originally born in the city, and was armed with social criticism in the West, but when it came to the Arab world, it became a countryside production, particularly in Egypt, when you say novel, you mean the Egyptian countryside or the farmer. (Dr. Medhat El Gayar) assured that the relation between the Egyptians and the land was accurately recorded in the novel, which is a chronology of the life of Egyptian social and political life.
The third session, which was managed by the researcher and human rights activist (Abdullah Al maamoun) was concentrating on "The writers' witnesses". The writer and physician (Azza Rashad) editor of the novel magazine presented a testimony her creative experience. She talked first about her relationship with the countryside as a physician in the village where she belongs to, as she was raised in a peasant family from one of the villages of El sharkeya, and she has worked in several rural medical communities. Then talked about her admiration to hear and listen to the complaints of patients, mostly rural. Dr. Azza Rashad in her testimony emphasized that the peasants had no justice at all, and when had material justice and got five acres, he hadn't adequate support in order to play his role in taking care of the land. She explained that her first published story was about a group of peasants and a bicycle in The Lines magazine in 2000, which is entitled "There is a bike on the road".