Ikhlas Fakhri Imarah (born 1940) is an Egyptian poet and university teacher. She was born in the town of Al Qalaj in

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, and self-educated, then attended the

Dar al-Ulum Dar al-Ulum ( ar, كلية دار العلوم, kullīya dār al-ʿulūm "House of Sciences" ), is an educational institution designed to produce students with both an Islamic and modern secondary education. It was founded in 1871 and is now a f ...

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 ...

. She then worked as a professor at

Faiyum Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop, ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...

Branch of Cairo University. Published some poetic collections and historical and critical literary studies.

Works

* ''As well as men'', poetry collection, 1990. * ''The Migratory Bird'', poetry collection, 1991. * ''Pre-Islamic poetry between tribal and subjective study''. * ''A Critical Reading in Contemporary Arabic Poetry''. * ''Islam and Poetry'' 1992 * ''Nostalgia and alienation in the Mahjar poets'' * ''Shafiq Maalouf's Poetry'', PhD Thesis. * ''On the art of storytelling'' * ''Crying for the homeland and Arabism''

References

1940 births Living people Cairo University alumni Egyptian women poets 20th-century Egyptian poets 21st-century Egyptian poets Academic staff of King Abdulaziz University Academic staff of Umm al-Qura University Egyptian emigrants to Saudi Arabia {{egypt-poet-stub