Muhammad al-Maghut

Muhammad al-Maghut was born on 12 December 1934 in Salamiyah, in Hama province, to a peasant father who hired out his labour; poverty took him out of school early. Arrested in 1955 with other members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, he was imprisoned in Mezzeh prison, where he met Adonis and where, as he would say, his real literary life began. A refugee in Beirut in the late fifties, he married the poet Saniya Saleh there. Editor-in-chief of a police magazine and co-founder of the daily Tishreen, he wrote satires for the stage and cinema. He died in Damascus on 3 April 2006.

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• Poetryحزن في ضوء القمرMuhammad al-Maghut · 1959not translated into EnglishLiterature