Saif al-Rahbi

Saif al-Rahbi was born in 1956 in the village of Surur, in the wilayat of Samail. In 1970 he left to study in Cairo, where he stayed until 1979 and studied journalism, then lived in Damascus until 1984, and afterwards in Paris and other European cities, working in the Arab cultural press. On his return to Oman, he founded the journal Nizwa, whose first issue appeared in November 1994 and of which he is the editor-in-chief. In 2013 he received the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Culture.

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• PoetryA Man from the Empty Quarterرجل من الربع الخاليSaif al-Rahbi · 1994Literature