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Zayd Mutee Dammaj

Died in 2000

Zayd Mutee Dammaj was born in 1943 in the district of As-Sayyani, near Ibb, the son of a sheikh who opposed Imam Yahya. A pupil in Taiz, then in Egypt, he studied law, then journalism, at Cairo University. He then pursued a political career: elected to the first Consultative Council in 1970, governor of Mahweet in 1976, ambassador to Kuwait in 1980. A novelist and short-story writer, he also wrote memoirs. He died in London on 20 March 2000.

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