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Hesham Al-Gakh uses poetry to express frustration.
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From using props in demonstrations against soaring prices such as plates, spoons and pots, to forming the Cairo Complaints Choir, in a bid to sing their sorrows away.
Recently, Hesham Al-Gakh helped revive a forgotten art form, that's been used since ancient Egypt, to express people's frustration and pain; poetry.
Al-Gakh's now famous poem "Juha" harshly criticizes the deterioration of Egypt's political and social sphere and vividly expresses the people's frustrations.
"It's a horrible feeling to realize that your country is weak, your voice is weak, your opinion is weak, to realize that if you sell your soul, your body, your pen and your name, you still wouldn't be able to afford a loaf of bread," the poem says.
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