Abdel Rahman Shokry ( ar, عبد الرحمن شكري; 12 October 1886 – 16 December 1958) was an Egyptian
poet
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England
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where he got his
Bachelor of Arts
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from the
University of Sheffield
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– Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield
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.
Career
He believed that poetry must be renewed and freed from the one-rhyme system in Arabic poetry. There were seven poetry books for him, including "Light of The Dawn" in 1909 and "Flower of The Spring" in 1916.
He abandoned poetry after a dispute with his two colleagues in this school,
Ibrahim Al-Mazini
Ibrahim Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini ( ar, إبراهيم عبد القادر المازني, ; born August 19, 1889 or 1890; died July 12 or August 10, 1949) was an Egyptian poet, novelist, journalist, and translator.
Early life
Al-Mazini was born in ...