Muhammad al-Fayturi

Muhammad al-Fayturi was born in 1936 in El Geneina, in western Sudan, to a father of Libyan origin, a sheikh of a Sufi brotherhood, and an Egyptian mother. He grew up in Alexandria, learned the Quran and studied at al-Azhar, then was a literary editor in the Egyptian and Sudanese press. An expert of the Arab League from 1968 to 1970, stripped of Sudanese nationality in 1974 under Nimeiry, he then served Libyan diplomacy in Italy, Lebanon and Morocco, and died in Rabat in 2015.

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• Poetryأغاني أفريقياMuhammad al-Fayturi · 1955not translated into EnglishLiterature