Salah Jaheen
| Salah Jahin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 25, 1930 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | April 21, 1986 (aged 55) Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupation | poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist |
| Nationality | Egypt |
Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (محمد صلاح الدين بهجت أحمد حلمي, IPA: [mu'ħammad sˤɑˈlɑːħ el-, edˈdiːn ˈbæhɡæt 'ʔaħmad ˈħelmi]), known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" (Arabic: صلاح جاهين, IPA: [sˤɑˈlɑːħ dʒæˈhiːn]; December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986) was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.
Jaheen was born in Shobra district, Cairo on 1930 to a middle-class family. He studied law in Cairo University. In 1955, he started working for the Egyptian weekly magazine "Rose al-Yousef" as a cartoonist. A year later, he moved to the new magazine "Sabah el-Khair" for which he became the editor-in-chief, then he joined Al-Ahram.
Together with Fuad Haddad, Jaheen had a great role in development of Egyptian colloquial poetry. In fact, the term "shi'r al-ammiya" or "Arabic colloquial poetry" was only coined in 1961 by a group of young poets including Salah Jahin, Abd Al-Rahman Abnudi, Fuad Qaud and Sayyid Higab who called themselves "Jama't Ibn Arus". Before that, poetry in colloquial Egyptian Arabic was regarded as a folkloric and low art produced by and for the uneducated masses, while the term "Shi'r" (Arabic for poetry) was restricted to poetry written in Modern Standard Arabic (commonly known as "Fuṣḥā", meaning most eloquent).
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