Abbas Al-Aqqad
Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad was an Egyptian writer. He was born on june 28th, 1889 in Aswan, Lower Egypt. Amazingly, enough, he only graduated from elementary school and did not further complete his education. Even he was only young, he used to spend all his allowances on books and more books…
His career got off the ground at a young age by working in a government office from which he resigned at the age of 17. He started out as a journalist going on to becoming an editor for one of the newspapers, ‘Al Doustour’ in 1907 then ‘Al Bayan’ in 1911. But it was in 1908 that he became the first Egyptian journalist to interview Saad Zaghloul, a nationalist leader who later became the country's prime minister.
Al Aqqad has more than 100 books about philosophy, religions, greats of humanity, and poetry to his name of which his most well known and famous were al-'Abkariat, Allah, and Sarah some of his work was even translated into English. He was also known for his use of flowery and complicated prose.
Of his many achievements are having founded a poetry school with Ibrahim Al-Mazny and Abdel Rahman Shokry called Al-Diwan. In 1956 Al-Aqqad was appointed to the Egyptian Higher Council of Literature and the Arts. Then in 1958, he released one of his 11 books of literary criticism, including “An Introduction to Shakespeare” as well as several others. .
Throughout the years, Al Aqqad has managed to prove his talent and gift for writing, so it was a sad event for many when he passed away on 12th March, 1964 at the age of 85. He was an extremely talented individual, so much that many scholars have made his life and works the subject of in-depth study.
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