Khalil Al Hindawi (1906,

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– 1976, Aleppo) was a Syrian writer and poet.

Early life

Hindawi finished his studies at Al Makasid Islamic and Charitable Association in Saïda in 1924, and started teaching there when he was 17 years old. He was exiled from Lebanon by French authorities after delivering a poem in a national ceremony, welcoming Riad as-Solh, who was coming back from his exile for the first time in 1928. He was sent to Syria, and he stayed in Damascus during the

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Career

In 1929, he worked as a teacher at

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high school in Syria, and started writing in ''Al Risala'' and ''Al Muktataf'' magazines. In 1939, he moved to Aleppo at the request of Saadallah al-Jabiri (later to become Prime Minister of Syria in 1943). He taught in Aleppo high schools until his retirement in 1966. Hindawi is considered by the Syrian Ministry of Education to be the first teacher who knew the value of the text and was interested in analyzing it and offering insights into the form of a literature review. He did that in the 1930s, when people were only repeating the translation of the writers at that time, and totally depending on literary historians' provisions. He was appointed Director of the Arab Cultural Center of Aleppo in 1958. He was a member of the United Arab Republic delegation to the Asian-African writers' conference that was held in Tashkent in 1958. He was a member of the Syrian delegation to the first Arab writers conference that was held in Beit Mery,

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in 1954. He was a member of the Syrian delegation to the Asian-African writers' conference that was held in

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in 1967. He was a member of the Syrian delegation to the Arab writers' conference that was held in Damascus in 1971. He held the presidency of the Arab Writers Union in Aleppo until his death in 1976. A ceremony in the honor of Khalil Al hindawi was organized by the Arab Writers Union and the faculty of Arts at Aleppo University in March 1974. The occasion was to mark half a century of his literary work. On 27 November 1976, he was granted the Honor Medal of Syrian Merit, First Class.

Works

* Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, 973–1057. Tajdīd Risālat al-ghufrān aʼlīf1965 * Yawm al-Yarmūk 1974 * Mukhtārāt min al-aʻmāl al-kāmilah / Khalīl al-Hindāwī ; iʻdād ʻUmar al-Daqqāq, Walīd Ikhlāṣī. 1980 * Min ajwāʼ al-Sharq : Hārūt wa-Mārūt 2008 * Tajdīd Risālat al-ghufrān. 1965 * Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm, shāʻir al-Nīl. * Damʻat Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn. 1958 * Yawm Dāḥis wa-al-Ghabrāʼ. 1974 * Ayyām al-ʻArab. 1974 * Ayyām al-ʻIrāq. 1974 * Maa̕ al-imām ʻAlī. 1962 * Yawm al-Basūs. 1974 * Yawm al-Qādisīyah. 1974 * Muntakhab min al-Aghānī. 1967 * Taysīr al-inshāʼ.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hindawi, Khalil 20th-century Syrian writers 1906 births 1976 deaths People from Sidon Syrian poets 20th-century poets Arab people of Indian descent India–Syria relations