«— Who has tasted the water from the Nile, He will always strive for Cairo.»

«— Who has tasted the water from the Nile, He will always strive for Cairo.»

Author: slanted-api

The poem «Egypt» belong to the Russian poet N. Gumilev, in poster translated into arabic, where the author plays the famous Egyptian saying: «Whoever drinks from the Nile will always return to it» (Who has tasted the water from the Nile/He will always strive for Cairo).
The meaning of the poster lies in the symbolism of the image of the river, its distortion through time epochs: from Ancient Egypt to the Arab world. As Herodotus said in the «Description of Egypt»: «Egypt is the gift of the Nile

«— Who has tasted the water from the Nile, He will always strive for Cairo.»