biography
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| lived:
| (?1890–1957)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Lebanon. He moved to Egypt, where he worked as a tobacconist, then emigrated to the USA (1911). Largely self-taught, he published several books, notably Al-Jadowil (1925, trans The Brooks), and founded a bi-weekly literary review, al-Samir, in New York City (1929, daily from 1936), which he edited until his death. He was known as a romantic poet. |
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