Haider Mahmoud (

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:حيدر محمود) is a

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and a Jordanian nationalist of

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origin. He was born in

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in 1942. His family fled their home in the aftermath of the 1948

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. He studied in

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

before pursuing his higher education in the United Kingdom and the United States. Mahmoud worked in journalism and the media, he was also Jordan's ambassador to

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, and he later held the culture portfolio in the Jordanian government. He was appointed as a member of the 26th

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on 24 October 2013. He was reappointed to the 27th Senate on 27 September 2016. A poem he wrote in early April 1989 about the social injustices facing ordinary citizens was one of the triggers of the civil unrest that took several Jordanian cities later that month. Mahmoud held the position of advisor to the prime minister at the time; he was sacked and ordered to be imprisoned by martial law decree, but was released on the same day by direct order from

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. Mahmoud's works were published in several languages, including

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and Serbian, and his works are taught in the Jordanian curriculum in both the school and university levels. He was granted an

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from the World Academy for Culture and Arts in the

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in 1986. Mahmoud was granted several Arab and International awards and medals, including the

King Abdullah II Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

Award for Innovation in the Field of Literature (Jordan, 2004), The Independence Medal of First Order (Jordan, 1991), Medal of the Republic of the Supreme Order (Tunisia, 1999),

Ibn Khafaja Abu Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abu al-Fath (1058–1138/9), called Ibn Khafajah (إبن خفاجة), a native of Alzira, was one of the most famous poets of al-Andalus during the reign of the Almoravids.Samuel G. Armistead, E. Michael Gerli (ed.), ''Me ...

Award for Poetry (

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, 1986). He currently writes a weekly column in the Jordanian newspaper '' Ad-Dustour''.

Published anthologies

* Yamurru Hatha Al Layl (The Night Shall Pass) 1969. * I'tithar An Khalal Fanni Tare'e (Apology for a Technical Fault) 1979. * Shajar Addufla Ala Al Nahr Yughanni (The Oleander Sings by the River) 1981. * Min Akwal Al Shahed Al Akheer (From the Words of The Last Witness) 1986. * The Complete Works, (Vol I) 1990. * Al Nar Allati La Tushbih Al Nar (The Fire Which is not Like Fire) 1999. * The Complete Works (Vol II) 2000 * Aba'at Al Farah Al Akhdar (The Shawls of Green Joy) 2006. * Fil Bid'e Kan Al Nahr (In The Beginning There was the River) 2007.

Plays

* Arageel Wa Suyuf 1969. * Birjas 1977.

References

External links

* حيدر محمود
Arabian Business Magazine Power 500 list of 2010

Jordan Ministry of Culture
Link in Arabic.

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