Gamal Bekhit is an Egyptian poet who graduated from Cairo University’s College of Journalism. He was selected four consecutive times by Egyptian Radio to write the country’s song submission for the Arab Song Contest of the Arab Broadcasting Union. He received numerous honors and prizes for his poetry, most of which convey the issues of ordinary people and Arab and Egyptian society in particular in an easy style which helped Bekhit connect with Arab people in Egypt and beyond.
When his soul left his body and this world, he left a house for poetry, a place for his things, and walls where the poetry he loved would remain. The Bahraini poet Ibrahim Al Arrayed, and all those who (followed) him in his literary journey and translated works, were retained by the Sheikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Centre for Culture and Research in his city which he belonged, Manama. For it was the house of fame, as the first among the homes of cultural centers outside the city of Muharraq.
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