What is the news about Palestine? A people without a country,
A country, whose identity they have stolen

What is the news about Lebanon? A nightclub venue,
Whose chairs are wooden, and whose tables are sectarian

What is the news about Syria?
A fat cow being assailed by savages with knives

What is the news about Iraq?
The land of pleasant death, where the trip is free of charge

What is the news about Jordan?
Neither sound nor picture, where signs are patriotic

What is the news about Egypt?
A bride, post revolution, laid by Muslim Brotherhood

What is the news about Libya?
A country turned into a weapons arsenal and tribal beliefs

What is the news about Tunisia? Under the guise of democracy
A disguised buffoon has claimed its presidency

What is the news about Morocco?
It affiliated to a Gulf Council in the name of monarchy

What is the news about Somalia?
God only knows its hidden secrets

What is the news about Sudan? All in the name of freedom
It has become two countries and its fortunes, too

What is the news about Yemen? Its *Salih has travelled,
Its evil is an infidel and its people’s issue is forgotten

What is the news about Oman? A country you never hear about,
In all honesty, Except in weather forecast bulletins

What is the news about Saudi Arabia?
A land, which exports dates Over and above Wahabist ideology

What is the news about the Emirates?
A nice secret hideout, where all clandestine plots are hatched

What is the news about Kuwait? An Arab country,
Which has become a state of the United States of America

What is the news about Bahrain?
A people are dying, which no one mentions in his fiery oratory

What is the news about Qatar? A Godfather of revolutions,
A dagger of treacheries and a kitchen for imperialism

To The Pan-Arab Peoples…Following the Damnation,
It would no longer be appropriate to salute you

*This is an allusion to President Ali Abdullah Salih, who was forced to give up power. His surname, Salih, means fit and proper.

An Arabic poem by Mr Bilal Furani in http://www.mepanorama.com 13th August 2012. It later transpired that this was a pen name of the Egyptian poet Mr. Ahmad Fuad Najim
Subsequently, on 16th October the same source published a revised edition under the title of: To the Pan-Arab Peoples…Following the Governmental Damnation,
A Thousand Greetings! Sadly, the poet died on the 3rd December 2013 aged 84.

Translated from Modern Standard Arabic by M T Ali (MCIL)

أعلن شباب جماعة الاخوان المسلمين رفضهم لما اسموه تطاول الشاعر احمد فؤاد نجم على الجماعة ووصفها بانها تضاجع مصر فى ابياته الشعرية التى حملت عنوان(بعد الطز لم يعد يليق بك التحية).
واكد ماهر عبدالستار ان الشاعر احمد فؤاد نجم تطاول على الاخوان بشكل غير لائق فاشعاره الجامحة لابد ان يكون لها نهاية فنحن لسنا ضد الشعر بل على العكس الشعر والادب
وحصلت شبكة الاعلام العربية(محيط)على قصيدة الشاعر احمد فؤاد نجم التى هاجم فيها الشعوب العربية واغضبت من الاخوان المسلمين وتقول القصيدة:
الى الأمة العربية : بعد الـ”طز” لم يعد يليق بكِ التحية مرآة الشعوب لكن بشكل مهذب وخلاق لكن عندما يقول ان عروس بعد الثورة ضاجعها الاخوان فهذا تعبير يحاسب عليه قانونيا .

محمد توفيق علي