Shawqi Abdul Amir

Shawqi Abdul Amir (12 September 1949) is an Iraqi poet and former diplomat. Born in Nassiriyah, he received his master's degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne in 1974 .He worked as a teacher in Algeria .Joined journalism and cultural affairs and worked as a press consultant at the South Yemen Embassy in Paris and been director of the Yemeni Cultural Center in Paris since 1991. He founded Kitâb fî Jarîda in 1995 to make literature freely available to individuals and households across the Arab world, particularly those who lack the financial means to buy books.[1][2][3]

Shawqi Abdul Amir
شوقي عبد الأمير
Born (1949-09-12) September 12, 1949
Nassiriyah
NationalityIraqi
Alma materParis-Sorbonne University
OccupationPoet

Life

He was born in Nassiriyah in 12 September 1949. He received his MA in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1974. He worked as a teacher for a period in Algeria, then moved to journalism and cultural work. He was appointed editor-in-chief of Le Monde Arabe (?) in the French press, and worked as a press consultant at Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in Paris. Worked in the field of international relations of UNESCO, became an expert in international cultural relations for 10 years, and the Iraqi cultural advisor at the UNESCO, founded the Kitâb fî Jarîda project, the largest Arab cultural project under the auspices of UNESCO.
He spent 35 years in exile between Algeria, Yemen and Paris, until he settled in Beirut, Lebanon.

Poetry works
  • Conversation for the singer of Arabia, 1976
  • Fetuses and rags of the desert, 1978
  • Borders, poetry, 1980
  • Ababyl, poetry, 1985
  • Word of River, 1986
  • Word of Qarmate, 1987
  • The Stone after the flood, 1990
  • The Seven Chronicles, 1992
  • Spur of Pagan Lands, trans. by Bernard Noël and the author, Asnières-sur-Oise, 1990.
  • Diary of poetry in exile
  • Diwan of Probabilities, 2000
  • Signatures, 2004
  • Diwan of the place, 2000
  • Poetic Works, 2000
  • The Obelisk of Anaïl, 2003
  • Birth of the Palm, 2004
  • Fearless, 2005
  • Surrounded sections, 2005
  • Failed Attempt to Assault Death, Poetry, 2009
  • The fifth face of the ego obelisk, Poetry, 2011
  • The Virtual Court, Poetry, 2014
  • Me and vice versa, Poetry, 2016
gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.
gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.
gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically
gollark: No, it probably isn't your fault, it must have been dropped from my brain stack while I was writing the rest.
gollark: ... I forgot one of them, hold on while I try and reremember it.

References
  1. Imil Badi' Ya'qub (2004). A dictionary of poets from the beginning of al-Nahda. 1th (1th ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Sader. p. 555.
  2. Kamil Salman al-Jabbouri (2002). Muʻjam al-shuʻarāʼ : min al-ʻAṣr al-Jāhilī ḥattá sanat 2002 M. 2th (1th ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah. p. 152. ISBN 9782745136930.
  3. "الشاعر شوقي عبدالأمير في (الرواد الكبار)". Alrai (in Arabic). 6 November 2012. Archived from the original on 31 August 2019.
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