Ahmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi

Ahmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi was born in 1898 in Fessato, in the Nafusa mountains, where his father was an Ottoman official. He studied at Nalut and then at Misrata, went to Alexandria with his family during the First World War, began composing there, returned to Benghazi, lived in Turkey, and settled permanently in Benghazi in 1946. He was twenty at his first verses and never stopped writing them. A founding member of his country's Arabic language academy, he died in Benghazi in 1961, aged sixty-three, and his verses are still learned in schools.

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• Poetryديوان شاعر الوطن الكبيرAhmed Rafiq al-Mahdawi · 1965not translated into EnglishLiterature