Ali Abdallah Khalifa

Ali Abdallah Khalifa was born in 1944 in Muharraq and published his first poems in the early 1960s, while working for Bahrain radio and television. In 1969 he founded, with Qassim Haddad, the Bahrain Writers' Association, then the publishing house Dar al-Ghad and a review of popular heritage. A poet in classical Arabic and in dialect, a folklorist of sailors' songs and of the mawwal, he died in June 2026.

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• Poetryأنين الصواريAli Abdallah Khalifa · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature