Ahmed shawqi biography
Ahmed shawqi biography
Ahmed shawqi in arabic.
Ahmed Shawqi
Egyptian poet
This article is about the poet. For other individuals with similar names, see Ahmed Shawki.
Ahmed Shawqi (Arabic: أحمد شوقي, ALA-LC:Aḥmad Shawqī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation:[ˈʔæħmædˈʃæwʔi]; –), nicknamed the Prince of Poets (Arabic: أمير الشعراءAmīr al-Shu‘arā’), was an Egyptianpoet laureate, linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the Arab World.[1]
Life
Shawqi was born in Cairo on October 17, , to a wealthy family of mixed Egyptian, Circassian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Greek roots.[2][3][4] His family was prominent and well-connected with the court of the Khedive Ismael of Egypt.
At the age of four, he joined a kuttab in the Sayyida Zeinab neighborhood, memorising there parts of the Holy Qur'an and learning the principles of reading and writing.[5]
Upon graduating from high school, he attended law school for two years, before joinin