‘Ali Maḥmūd Ṭāhā ( ar, علي محمود طه‎) (1901–1949) was an Egyptian neo-romantic poet and member of the Cairo "Apollo Society".Ali Taha
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in 1967, describing them both as reformist poets (''sha'irayn mujaddidayn''). Nevertheless, Taha was not as immersed in romanticism as

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and Mohammad al-Hamshari. Furthermore, Taha's poets were politically-colored, but even provocative and patriotic, despite his death, which was before the 23rd-of-July Revolution. He was among the contributors of ''

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'', newspaper of the Liberal Constitutional Party.

Early life

Taha was born to a family of the middle-class in Mansoura, in

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, Egypt.

Poems

*''East and West'' *''Spirits and Ghosts'' *''Flower and Wine'' *''Passion Returned'' *''Nights of the Lost Sailor'' *''The Lost Sailor'' *''Birth of a Poet'' *''Palestine''

References

External links

Ali Taha
on Egyptian State Information Service

(Arabic) {{DEFAULTSORT:Taha, Ali Mahmoud Egyptian male poets 1901 births 1949 deaths People from Mansoura, Egypt 20th-century Egyptian poets 20th-century male writers