Ali al-Regeie

Ali al-Regeie was born in 1934 in Tripoli. His mother died of smallpox when he was twelve. Poverty kept him from university: he educated himself, worked in the accounts department of the Ministry of Health, then moved to the radio, where he presented literary programmes, and wrote in the newspaper Tripoli de l'Ouest. He read Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi, and wrote free verse as well as the inherited metre. A car killed him on 23 November 1966.

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• Poetryالليل والسنون الملعونةAli al-Regeie · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature