An Egyptian poet and engineer who graduated from the Faculty of Engineering’s Communications Department. So far, he has published nine poetry collections, the most recent of which is “What seemed to you,” published by Dar Shorouk in 2020. In 2011, he was awarded the Cavafy Prize for Literature. He also received the Cairo International Book Fair award in 2017 for his colloquial poetry collection, “Time Stolen Us.” In 2020, the Egyptian Al-Aragoz Festival honored him for his extensive and distinguished poetic repertoire.
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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