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Through the journey, he try to find what had fallen into oblivion during the 80’s and discover the absent reality.
For years Yasser has been trying to gather the works of the poet Essam Abdallah,that has been forgotten. The research leads him to questions about his childhood, his generation memory who suffers from the weakness of it collective memory. Through the journey, he try to find what had fallen into oblivion during the 80›s and discover the absent reality.
I belong to a generation that lived amidst drastic changes, and when I began to look into the past, I was shocked at the insufficient information and lack of documented material, and at the difficulty of the research process in general.
There are no traces left of Essam , who lived for forty five years working tirelessly to found his lifetime project for the Arabic song, and to spread as much work as he could throughout his lifetime. A similar story has dreadfully taken place when I embarked on my search for Essam along with my partner, Mohammad Rabie.For when we began to get a grip on some evidence of Essam, Rabie went to an early grave at the age of thirty-three without having the opportunity to complete his own project. His traces departed along with him except for a humble amount that my memory still retains. I was alarmed by the dreadful reality: it seems to me that a certain sequence of events recur like a curse; like a chasm that opens from time to time to devour anyone who realizes this reality or comes closer to it. These are people who are destined to streak through life briskly.