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Hamza al-Malik Tambal

Died in 1951

Hamza al-Malik Tambal was born in 1897 in Aswan, in Upper Egypt, to a mother from the city and a paternal line descended from the kings of Argo, in northern Sudan. He did his primary and secondary studies in Aswan, had Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad as his teacher and remained close to him. Returning to Sudan, he was appointed deputy district governor in Dongola, but soon left the administration to devote himself to poetry and lived in the family palace, going back and forth between Cairo and his province. He died in Dongola, in 1951 according to some, in 1960 according to others.

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