How Rural Egyptian Women Spoke to the Dead Through Poetry

How Rural Egyptian Women Spoke to the Dead Through Poetry

Most of us go about our lives thinking that death is a stranger we will only encounter once in our lives, that it will not suddenly sneak into our homes and steal away our loved ones. But, through the poetry and mourning songs of rural Egyptian women (also known as al ‘adid), death exists outside of time and beyond the moment of loss. It lives among us as though it had always been there, simply waiting to be noticed. To reflect on death, and to …