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Salah Abdel Sabour

Died in 1981

Salah Abdel Sabour was born in May 1931 and was writing verse by the age of thirteen, according to Arab World Books, which says he was arrested in 1949 during demonstrations against the British occupation. A graduate in Arabic language from Cairo University in 1951, he taught briefly, then was a journalist at Rose al-Youssef and head of the literary pages of al-Ahram, an under-secretary at the Ministry of Culture and a press adviser in India. He was running the Egyptian General Book Organisation when he died, in August 1981.

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