The introduction to this interview contextualizes the artist- poet’s formative years in Alexandria, his biography, and cultural journalism. In the interview, Morsi reminisces about the significant spaces in his trajectory and his choices in both art and poetry. Reflecting on his reviews of Iraqi avant-garde art exhibitions in the 1950s and involvement in the journal Gallery 68 in Egypt in the 1960s, he traces his friendships with Arab artists and writers. Morsi addresses his launching into journalism, collaborative projects, and censorship, as well as his return to writing poetry after a silence that began in the wake of the June 1967 defeat and lasted for three decades.