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Sheikh Imam: Voice of Dissent

Kerning Cultures

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The Imam Song, Thank God We Knock Under Our Armpits Ale Officers

We ask i talk us through imam song, ill hamde lera, butne or, thank god we knock beneath our armpinstham. It begins in this kind of simple way, but already in that first coup of lines, you hear they're making on of the fact that the egyptian armyas been painting. And what you name your enemy, that's when you become political. This poem landed those two in deep, deep trouble with the regime. The security apparatus took these songs to noser, and he must have said something like, how can he write this especially e thank god we're not beneath our Armpis?

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