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He was born in Fayrūza near
He wrote for a number of periodicals including Ḥdonoyutho
Suryoyto (Buenos Aires, ed. Farīd Nuzhā) and Leshono d-Umtho (Beirut, ed. Ibrahim Haqwerdi). His compositions
include a number of poems. He translated from Arabic Muʾayyid al-Dīn
al-Ṭaghraʾī’s Lāmiyyat al-ʿajam (published in Munūfar
Barṣūm), a short poem by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) titled ‘Clouds and
Waves’, and Pierre Corneille’s French poem Le
Cid.