Abdul-Aziz al-Maqalih

Abdul-Aziz al-Maqalih was born in 1937 in the village of Maqalih, in the Ibb region. After a bachelor's degree obtained in 1970, he completed a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in 1977 at Ain Shams University in Cairo. Expelled from Egypt, according to several accounts, for having opposed the Camp David accords, he settled in Sanaa in 1978, was president of Sanaa University from 1982 to 2001, then of the Yemeni Centre for Studies and Research. Winner of the Lotus Prize and the Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture, he died in Sanaa on 28 November 2022.

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