ʿUmar Abū Rīshah

Syrian poet and diplomat
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Born:
April 10, 1910, ʿAkko, Palestine [now in Israel]
Died:
July 15, 1990, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (aged 80)

ʿUmar Abū Rīshah (born April 10, 1910, ʿAkko, Palestine [now in Israel]—died July 15, 1990, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) was a Syrian poet and diplomat, noted for his early poetry, which broke with the traditions of Arab classicism. Abū Rīshah attended the University of Damascus in Syria, the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and the University of Manchester, England. He was an early contributor to the influential Egyptian literary journal Apollo, and from 1940 he worked as a librarian in Aleppo, Syria. In 1949 his increasingly political poems attracted the attention of the new military government, and he was appointed ambassador ...(100 of 155 words)