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Egyptian poet
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Male
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Birth:
31 December 1898(Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt)
Death:
27 March 1953
The details
Biography
Introduction
Ibrahim Nagi (Arabic: إبراهیم ناجي) (1898–1953) was an Egyptian poet. Nagi was also a doctor in internal medicine. Nagi's most famous poem is Al-Atlal or The Ruins which was eventually sung by Egyptian singer Om Kalthoom. He was a co-founder of the Cairo Society for Romantic Poetry. He married Samia Sami and had three daughters: Amira (who had a daughter named Samia and a son named Mohammed), Dawheya (who went to live in America and had a son- Ahmad, and a daughter- Shahira), and Mohassen.
The legacy of Ibrahim Nagi in the literary studies
The poetry of Ibrahim Nagi is an object of studies of several literary critics. Nagi's legacy was noted by Abdul Rahman Ghazi al Gosaibi, Hasan Tawfiq and Saleh Jawdat.