Salah Abdel Sabour ( ar, صلاح عبد الصبور ), (May 1931 – 14 August 1981) was an Egyptian
free verse
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poet
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,
editor
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,
playwright
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Etymology
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and
essayist
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. He showed an interest in literature in his early life and started to write verses at the age of 13. Salah graduate from
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 ...
in 1951 with a degree in Arabic literature.
Soon after graduation from the university, he took up teaching Arabic at state high school, a job he did not enjoy doing. He eventually abandoned it and began working for
Rose al-Yūsuf
''Rose al-Yūsuf'' ( ar, روز اليوسف; also written ''Rose al-Yousef'') is an Arabic weekly political magazine published in Egypt.
History and profile
''Rose al-Yūsuf'' was first published on 26 October 1925. The magazine was named afte ...
Magazine as journalist then became the literary editor for
al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majori ...
. Afterwards, he held the position of undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture. From there, he became the editor-in-chief for the Cinema and Theater magazine. Between 1977 and 1978, he served as a press counselor for the Egyptian embassy in India and then headed the
General Egyptian Book Organization until his death.
His first collection of poems, ''an-Nas fi Biladi'' ("People In My Land")
published in 1956, marked the beginnings of the free verse movement in Egyptian poetry.
Quotes
*"I am not possessed with melancholy; I do rather possess it as a stimulant to achieve self-rejuvenating and higher and more conscious prospects beyond the ego".
References
External links
Salah Abdel Sabourat the Egyptian State Information Service.
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Egyptian male poets
1931 births
1981 deaths
20th-century Egyptian poets
20th-century male writers
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