This work incorporates photographs of the singer Abdel Halim Ali Shabana (1929-1977) and the poet Salah Jaheen (1930-1986).

Abdel Halim Hafez is one of the most popular Egyptian and Arab singers and performers. In addition to singing, Halim was also an actor, conductor music teacher and film producer. Along with Umm Kolthoum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, and Farid Al Attrach, .he is considered to be one of the Great Four of Arabic music. He is also known as an icon in modern Arabic music. His music is still played daily throughout the Arab world. His songs influenced the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Mohammad Salah Eldin Bahgat, known as "Salah Jaheen" was a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist. Together with Fuad Haddad, Jaheen had a great role in development of Egyptian colloquial poetry.. Before that, poetry in colloquial Egyptian Arabic was regarded as a folkloric and low art produced by and for the uneducated masses, while the term "Shi'r" (Arabic for poetry) was restricted to poetry written in Classical Arabic. Jaheen wrote several plays for the puppet théâtre and was also known for his nationalist and patriotic songs that marked the revolutionary era of Gamal Abdel Nasser, many of which were performed by the famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez. Jaheen was inspired by the 1952 Revolution and was sometimes known as its semiofficial poet. After Egypt's defeat in the 1967 war and Nasser’s death in 1970 he suffered from a severe depression.
In addition to political poetry, Jaheen's poems frequently contain metaphysical and philosophical themes, questioning the purpose of human life, the nature of good and evil, human and divine will and the limits of human pursuit of freedom and happiness.