Salah Ahmed Ibrahim

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Salah Ahmed Ibrahim(1933 in Omdurman-15 May 1993), Arabic صلاح أحمد إبراهيم, was a Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat.

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[edit] Writing

Salah Ibrahim was described in 1963 as the most important Sudanese poet of his generation, and that: "in his poetry there is all the yearning, all the frustration of his generation. He writes his poetry with miraculous ease and beauty."[1]. Ibrahim was also noted for his socialist realist fiction, of which he was a notable proponent[2].

[edit] Politics

Ibrahim graduated from Khartoum University, Faculty of Arts. He maintained an involvement in politics, and was eventually Sudanese Ambassador to Algeria[3]

[edit] Works

  • Ga'be't El-Abanois, Arabic غابة الأبنوس or Ebony Forest, poetry collection.
  • Ga'dbet El-Heba'ba'y, Arabic غضبة الهبباى or Rage of El-Heba'ba'y, poetry collection.

[edit] References

  1. ^ p. 40, Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, Sudan Notes and Records, Khartoum University Press, 1963
  2. ^ p. 641, Helene Henderson, Laurie Lanzen Harris, Jay P. Pederson, Twentieth-century Literary Movements Dictionary, 2000, Omnigraphics
  3. ^ p. 276, Mom K. N. Arou, B. Yongo-Bure, North-South relations in the Sudan since the Addis Ababa Agreement, 1989, Institute of African and Asian Studies, University of Khartoum. Section reads:

    "To begin with the relevant factors which are believed to be the causes of the North-South Conflict are remarkably fitted into the historical context in a poem entitled 'Malual', by Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, former Sudanese Ambassador to Algeria. The relevant parts of the poem read..."


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