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El-Baroudi Mahmoud Sami (محمود سامى البارودى)
(1839—1904)

Interesting that the earliest celebrated force behind the Arabs' turn-of-the-century poetic renaissance should turn out to be an army officer. Not only that: Mahmoud Sami El-Baroudi was also a politician of limitless ambition. And this is why he presents contemporary Arab poetics with an almost paradoxical question. Literary innovation chimes with... More...

Egipte, 1979, Mahmoud Sami El-Baroudi