Amira Nur al-Din Daoud (1925 – April 2020) was an Iraqi poet. Born in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

. After completing her secondary education, she joined Fuad I University in Cairo in 1943, and BA in Arabic Language and Literature in 1947, and a master's degree from the same university in 1957. She worked as a teacher of Arabic in secondary schools, then at the Faculty of Arts of Baghdad, then dean of the Institute of Applied Arts. Published her poetry in many Iraqi and Arab magazines and newspapers.

Life

Amira bint Nur al-Din/Noureddine Daoud was born in

into a family originally from

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second large ...

, Her father came to Baghdad in the late Ottoman era for education. Amira Noureddine studied in Baghdad until high school, then moved to Cairo in 1943 and joined the Fuad I University and graduated with a degree in arts and then a master's degree in 1947. Worked as a teacher of Arabic literature in Iraq's secondary school and then in the Faculty of Arts, University of Baghdad, then as dean of the Institute of Applied Arts. In addition to Arabic, she mastered Turkish, Persian, English and French. She retired in 1984, and in 1996 appointed as an active member of the

Iraqi Academy of Sciences The Iraqi Academy of Sciences (Arabic: المجمع العلمي العراقي) is an academy in Baghdad founded in 1948 in order to develop and regulate the Arabic language in Iraq and the Arab World. The Academy also has two other departments t ...

Poetry

Her first poetic attempts were in the early 1940s and was influenced by Arab romantic poets, including Ali Mahmoud Taha, as well as

Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

and

Elia Abu Madi Elia Abu Madi (also known as Elia D. Madey; ar, إيليا أبو ماضي 'Lebanese Arabic Transliteration: , .) (May 15, 1890 – November 23, 1957) was a Lebanese-born American poet. Early life Abu Madi was born in the village of Al- ...

. Her poetry is "perfect, realistic, varied, beautifully innovative imaged" in the opinion of Imil Badi' Ya'qub. Her father, Nur al-Din Daoud who died in January 1955, encouraged her to work on poetry and She studied

Arabic prosody ( ar, اَلْعَرُوض, ) is the study of metre (poetry), poetic meters, which identifies the meter of a poem and determines whether the meter is sound or broken in lines of the poem. It is often called the ''Science of Poetry'' ( ar, عِل� ...

before going to university and was very active while studying in Cairo. Published her poetry in many Iraqi and Arab magazines and newspapers.

Works

* ''Appeals and shades'', a collection of poetry. Also a book on poetry of

Muhammad Iqbal Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

Life

Poetry

Works

References

See also