Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi

Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi (Arabic: أحمد عبد المعطي حجازي‎) (born in 1935 in Al-Menoufiya, Egypt) is an Egyptian contemporary poet.

Contributed to many literary conferences in many Arab capitals, and is one of the pioneers of the movement of renewal in contemporary Arabic poetry.

Contents 1 Education 2 Positions held 3 Poetry works 4 Writings 5 Awards 6 See also 7 references and sources

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Department of Sociology at the University of Sorbonne, France, in 1979.

Positions held

• Managing editor of Sabah El-Kheir Magazine (Rose al-Yūsuf)
• In France where he worked as a professor of Arabic poetry at the Paris 8 University and the new Sorbonne University
• Returned to Cairo to work on Al-Ahram newspaper and editor-in-chief of Ebd'aa magazine
• Member of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate and the Commission on the poetry of the Supreme Council of the culture
• member of the Arab Organization of Human Rights.
• He was invited to read pottery in the literary festivals.

Poetry works

• City Without A Heart, 1959.
• Uras, 1959.
• Nothing Remains but Confession, 1965
• Elegy of the Beautiful life, 1972
• Creatures of the Kingdom of the Night, 1978.
• Cement Trees, 1989.
• Ruins of Time, 2011.

Writings

• Muhammad and those
• Ibrahim Nagi
• Khalil Mutran
• An interview Tuesday
• My poetry
• Other cities
• Arabism of Egypt
• Ahmed Shawqi grandchildren

Awards

• Was awarded the 1989 Egyptian-Greek Cavafy
• Egyptian State incentive prize in literature of the Supreme Council of Culture, 1997
• African Poetry Prize, 1996

See also

• Lists of Egyptians
• أحمد عبد المعطي حجازي

references and sources

Dubai International Poetry Festival

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