Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri

Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri was born in Najaf on 26 July 1899, into a family of clerics and men of letters; his father had him wear the turban from the age of ten, and he learned a large part of Mutanabbi by heart. He took part in the uprising of 1920, served for a short time at the court of Faisal I, then lived from teaching and journalism, founding several newspapers, and was imprisoned for three months in 1936. Elected a deputy in 1947, he resigned a year later. He left Iraq in 1961 for Lebanon and then Prague, returned in 1968 and died in Damascus on 27 July 1997.

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• Poetryديوان الجواهريMuhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature