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