Abdullah al-Baradduni

Abdullah al-Baradduni was born in 1929 in the Dhamar region. He studied in Dhamar, then at the Great Mosque of Sanaa and at Dar al-Ulum, from which he graduated in Islamic law before teaching there. He was imprisoned in 1948 for satirical poems against the imamate, and again under the regimes that followed. Director of Sanaa radio, then head of its programmes, founder and first president of the Union of Yemeni Writers, he published twelve collections of poetry and books on politics and folklore. He died in Sanaa on 30 August 1999.

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• Poetryمن أرض بلقيسAbdullah al-Baradduni · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature