Arar

Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal, known as Arar, was born on 25 May 1899 in Irbid. A pupil in Damascus, where he took part in strikes against the Ottoman authorities, he learned Turkish and Persian in Aleppo. A teacher of Arabic literature in Karak, governor of Wadi al-Sir and of Shoubak, a magistrate, then head of protocol at the emir's court, he was dismissed and imprisoned for seventy days in 1942 after an altercation with the Prime Minister. He died in Amman on 24 May 1949.

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• Poetryعشيات وادي اليابسArar · 1954not translated into EnglishLiterature