A Tunisian poet and translator known since the 1980s for his strict style of poetry with the Music Search Band. In 1990s, he accompanied the artist Lotfi Bouchnak in his song project, writing a number of emotional and patriotic songs. He also translated Baudelaire’s diaries into Arabic and worked in the broadcast media in Tunisia. Fathi also penned a few of Sheikh Imam’s songs such as “My Son,” the Music Search Band in Gabes and the White Doves Lyric Band.
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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