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Fifth Circle 1996-1997

• Born in Tilla Almanoufiya, Egypt, 1935
• Graduated from Education School, 1955
• Started his career in journalism in Sabah Al Khair magazine, 1956, and relocated to Damascus where he worked for six months in 1959 following the Union
• Became head of the Culture Dept. at Rose Al Yousef magazine, 1965, then its Editor, 1969
• Dismissed from Rose Al Yousef. He was on the list of 108 Egyptian journalists sacked by the President Sadat in 1973
• Returned to Rose Al Yousef after the dismissal was revoked
• Dismissed again by the Sadat Government and travelled to France in 1974 to settle there
• Became a lecturer in Arabic Literature at Paris and Sorbonne universities
• Did his higher diploma in 1979
• Did his higher diploma in developed studies in Arabic Literature, 1980
• Started writing for Al Ahram in 1990
• Became Editor-in-Chief of Ibda’a late in 1990

Decision of the General Secretariat

A leading and pioneering figure in the innovative school of poetry, Ahmed Abdul Mutti Hijazi has a lot of experience. He has witnessed the transformation of modern Arabic poetry. His poetry developed from being realistic and committed into a structure that enhances aesthetic values and individual experience. This made him very special, without diminishing its power to convey the message.

Famous Works

• Auras
• Creatures of Night Realm
• Elegy for Beautiful Years
• Concrete Trees
• Others’ Towns
• There still the Confession Only
• Heartless Town
• Collection of Abdul Mutti Hijazi 

Studies

• Mohammad and Others
• Egypt Arabism
• Tuesday’s Talk (2 vol.)
• Poetry, My Companion
• The Questions of poetry
• Showqi’s Grandsons
• The Poem of No
• A Life’s Tree
• The Narrator Says