Ahmed Hijazi (poet)

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

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

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

• Without the heart of the city in 1959.
• Uras 1959.
• However, no such recognition 1965
• Beautiful old Marsieha 1972
• The Kingdom of the night 1978.
• Trees Cement 1989.

His 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 or sources

Dubai International Poetry Festival