Abstract
Many books and articles have been written about our national poet Mehmet Âkif Ersoy. No matter how much work is written about him, it is obvious that it will be difficult to tell the problems he suffered from and especially transfer his feelings after the problems he experienced. As stated in the proverb “Care killed the cat”, his life in Egypt gripped Akif’s soul. He was just like a man being tried to escape from the middle of a landslide flowing from all four sides of him. For somebody else, it is more important to understand him and feel his mood than writing about him. Some of the articles dealing with Akif do not mention about his life in Egypt where he spent ten years and lived under extremely difficult conditions, but some of them discussed his life in Egypt. In this article, it is mainly focused on the life of Akif in Egypt by using some books and an underutilized source as well. In this study, it’s written in a different style that the adventure of Âkif going to Egypt, the problems he suffered there, the story of his initiation to Cairo University, the words of his Egyptian friends about Âkif and the return of Istanbul.