Magdi El-Gabri (), Egyptian poet and researcher. He has published several collections of poetry, including "August" which was published in 1990 by Dar Al-Masrya. He died in 1999 of lung cancer.

Biography

Magdi Abdel-Hadi Al-Gabri was born in Umm Al-Masryeen neighborhood in

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in 1961. His mother gave birth to 16 children and he was the ninth child and one of two boys who lived after the death of his six siblings. For this reason, and to protect him from the

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, his family treated him as a girl which they dressed him as a girl, lengthened his hair, and changed his name to a girl's name until he started his primary school studies. El-Gabri studied his middle school at Al-Ahram School, and his secondary school at Saidia Military school in 1979. Later, he obtained a Diploma in Higher Institute for Agricultural Cooperation from

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, and obtained a postgraduate diploma in folk arts from the Academy of Arts in 1992. Then, he worked as a proofreader for the "radio and television" magazine, then worked as a cultural specialist at the General Organization of Culture Palaces. El-Gabri married his wife, Safaa Abdel Moneim, who was also a writer, in 1988. His writing career began when he was still studying at the Agriculture College at

, where he wrote a play entitle "A Passport on Meat Paper". He published his first poetry collection "August" a few months prior to the

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in 1990. Then he published his second collection named "Exactly As If It Happened" in 1995. He also published the poem "A Scandal, and a Scandal Must Be Completed" in which he mocked the wars that are taking place in the Arab world.

His death

El-Gabri was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1998. He moved to the "Umm Al-Masryeen" hospital. After taking his first

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does, he died in 1999.

Works

* "August" (original title: Ashustus), 1990 * "Exactly as if It Happened" (original title: Bil Thabt wa Ka'anahu Hasal), 1994 * "A Boy Listening to Stories" (original title: Ayeel Byestad Hawadeeth), 1995 * "Life is Not a Rehearsal" (original title: Al Hayat Min Profa), 2010 *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:El-Gabri, Magdi Egyptian poets 20th-century Egyptian poets 1961 births 1999 deaths

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