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Mohammed Al-Maghout poet, playwright and screenwriter Syria. Born in 1934 in Salamiyah, died April 3, 2006 in Damascus. A pioneer of contemporary Arabic poetry he renewed traditional forms in texts that combines violence, desperation and irony. His life was marked by the imprisonment and exile in Lebanon, prices paid for his fierce independence.
Mohammed Al-Maghout was born in 1934 in a farming family of Ismaili Salamiyah, in the governorate of Hama in Syria. He studied agronomy in Damascus, but quickly surrenders, feeling little interest in the matter. In 1955, he was imprisoned for his membership in the Syrian Nationalist Party, then banned. He met the poet Adonis in jail and started writing and this experience of prison and torture have also an important influence on his life and his work.
http://forteresses.blogspot.com/2010/03/mohammed-al-maghout-un-poete-ismaelien.html
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