Umar Abu Risha

Umar Abu Risha was born around 1910, in Manbij according to some, in Acre according to what he himself said, to a mother steeped in mystical poetry. A pupil at the American college in Beirut, he left in 1929 to study dye chemistry in Manchester, read the English poets and returned to Aleppo in 1932 without a degree. He ran the national library of Aleppo until 1949, then represented Syria in Brazil, Argentina, India, Austria and the United States. Retired in 1971, he died in Riyadh on 14 July 1990 and is buried in Aleppo.

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• Poetryمن عمر أبو ريشةUmar Abu Risha · 1947not translated into EnglishLiterature