Abdulrahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud ( ar, عبد الرحمن بارود; 1937 in
Bayt Daras
Bayt Daras ( ar, بيت دراس) was a Palestinian Arab town located northeast of Gaza and approximately above sea level, which was depopulated in 1948.
History
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Palestine
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– 17 April 201
was a well-known Palestinian poet.
Biography
In 1948, when there was abandonment of his village, he and his family were captured by the IDF and settled in
Jabalia Camp, Jabalia refugee camp. The first poem wrote by Baroud was written while he was in primary school and it was about the battle of Bayt Daras. He studied in his village until the fifth grade primary, and even completed high school, moving between schools and refugee agencies in the
Gaza Strip
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. He was sent for further study by the relief agency to complete his university studies in the
Faculty of Arts
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at
Cairo University
Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...
. He received a bachelor's degree, and then won a scholarship from the University of Cairo to get his masters and doctorate degrees with honor grades. Afterwards, he moved to work at
King Abdulaziz University
King Abdulaziz University (KAU) ( ar, جامعة الملك عبد العزيز) is a public university in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. With over 117,096 students in 2022, it is the largest university in the country. Located in south Jeddah, the univ ...
in
Jeddah
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as a professor. He wrote most of his poems while working for the university. He was killed in April 2010. He was married to an Egyptian woman, and was the father of six children.
Most famous works
*هجوم السلام
*يا تائهون على الدروب
*ذكرى الخليل
*عام مضى
*أطلق يدي
References
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Palestinian male poets
1937 births
2010 deaths
20th-century Palestinian poets
20th-century male writers
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