Elia Abu Madi

Īliyyā Abū Māḍī was born around 1889 in al-Muhaydatha, a village in Mount Lebanon. He emigrated to Egypt at the age of eleven, worked as a tobacco merchant in Cairo, where he published his first collection, and reached the United States in 1911, first as a peddler and then as a journalist in New York. A founding member of the Pen League (al-Rābiṭa al-qalamiyya) with Gibran and Naimy, he became the most widely read of the mahjar poets. Founder of the magazine al-Samīr, he died in New York in 1957.

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• PoetryThe StreamsAl-JadawilElia Abu Madi · 1927Literature