1909 - 2001
Mahmud Arif
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Details
| Birthday |
30th November, 1908
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| Birthplace |
Jedda, Hejaz vilayet, Ottoman Empire
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| Died |
1st March, 2001
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| Place of Death |
Jedda, Saudi Arabia
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| Occupation Text |
poet, journalist, official
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| Year(s) Active |
1963-2000
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Mahmud Abd al-Khayr Al Arif (Arabic: محمود عارف, Maḥmūd ʿĀrif; 1909 – 1 March 2001), commonly known as Mahmud Arif, was a Saudi Arabian poet. He was born in Old Jedda, Hejaz. After studying in Kuttab for three years, he joined Al Falah School and graduated. He worked as a teacher there for seven years, then moved to government jobs and worked in various office and administrative support occupations, such as: editor, copy typist and lawyer in the Civil Endowments Department of the Sharia judiciary, director of passports and government residency and finally moved to the accounting department. He was chosen a member of the Consultative Assembly until his retirement in 1978. In 1963, appointed as editor-in-chief of Okaz newspaper for a year at the beginning of the new system for journalistic institutions in Saudi Arabia. He is one of the founding members of the Jeddah Society of Culture and Arts in 1975. As a poet, he published many collections of poetry and several other prose books.
