Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi

Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi was born in Cairo on 6 October 1839, into a family of Circassian origin according to Maspero. A career officer, he took part, according to the same source, in the Urabi revolt against the Khedive Tawfiq, became Minister of War and then Prime Minister, and defended a constitutional reform before the British invasion of 1882, according to Terri DeYoung. Exiled by the British, he spent seventeen years in Ceylon, in solitude and illness. Returning to Egypt almost blind, he died in Cairo on 12 December 1904, according to Maspero.

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• Poetryديوان الباروديMahmoud Sami al-Baroudi · 1942not translated into EnglishLiterature