Abbas mahmoud al akkad biography
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Abbas Mahmoud El'Akkad (1889-1964), poet, literature critic and politician; one of the most important modernist writers and thinkers of the liberal era in modern Egypt.
His life
El'Akkad was born in Aswan the well known tourist city in southern Egypt; he was graduated from the elementary school on 1903 and did not continue his formal education due to the poor conditions of his family at that time. During his early youth he worked in a factory of silk and as an employer in the rail ways. However, he was obsessed by reading and acquiring knowledge in different fields. He worked as a clerk in Quena in Upper Egypt as well as other occupations until he started to write in newspapers, as a consequence of his wide intellect and knowledge.
In this period he joined Mohammad Farid Wagdy in issuing a new newspaper called "The Convention" (Aldustour in Arabic). After sometime the newspaper has been closed and he worked as a private teacher for sometime for living. His intellectual and literary production has never seized, he wrote regular articles in different magazines and newspapers. He was offered the national prize for literature during the rule of Gamal Aboulnasser in the fifties but he
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Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
Egyptian journalist and poet
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad (Arabic: عباس محمود العقاد, ALA-LC:‘Abbās Maḥmūd al-‘Aqqād; 28 June 1889 – 12 March 1964) was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic,[1][2] and member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.[3][4] More precisely, because "his writings cover a broad spectrum, including poetry, criticism, Islamology, history, philosophy, politics, biography, science, and Arabic literature",[5] he is perceived to be a polymath.[6][7]
Biography
[edit]Al-Aqqad was born in Aswan, a city in Upper Egypt, in 1889.[8] His father was a money-changer originally from the Egyptian rural city of Damietta while his mother had Kurdish roots.[9][10] He received little formal education, completing only his elementary education; he later supplemented his learning by buying books and reading on his own.[2] Unlike his schoolmates, he spent all his weekly allowance on books. He read about religion, geography, history and many other subjects. He was known for his excellent English and French. He was also particularly well-read in German literature.[11]
Al-'Aqqad was also an outspoken political
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