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What Appeared to You

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Jan 2022
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A Cairo-born Egyptian poet and engineer, Amin Haddad holds a degree in Telecommunications and published his first poetry collection The Scent of Loved Ones in 1990. Winner of the Cavafy Prize, Haddad has published nine poetry collections, the last of which is entitled Whatever Seems to You.

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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