Professor of Arabic literature at Misr University for Science and Technology, head of the center for editing Arabic heritage . editor in chief of Misr university journal for humanities studies .
This research provides a critical analysis of the image of the West in the poetry of Hafez Ibrahim, in an attempt to contribute to revealing the roots of some problems related to our relationship with the West. The West - no doubt - is an existing force in our modern era; and as the realistic perception leads to wise behavior, we must learn from history and consider literature a mirror of society in every era. The choice of Hafez Ibrahim in particular has been because of his reputation as a patriotic writer who does not belong originally to a foreign country. Moreover, he was neither a member of a scientific mission to England or France nor completed his education there; all there is that he traveled one trip to Italy. He, then, according to Dr. Taha Hussein, "does not owe Europe anything of his literature" Hafez Ibrahim lived in a pivotal time stage, in which colonial domination was imposed in both its military and cultural facets, and controlled the formation of our contemporary world. Ibrahim tried to express at this stage the difficult problems faced by a community fluctuating between the intransigence of the colonizer claiming civilization and observance of human rights from one side, the weakness of the leaders of the East and their docility – often – to the will of this usurper occupier, and the resulting cultural colonialism that wanted to marginalize education and delay the East to remain a faithful follower.
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