ʿUmar Abū Rīshah

ʿUmar Abū Rīshah (born April 10, 1910, ʿAkko, Palestine [now in Israel]—died July 15, 1990, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) was a Syrian poet and diplomat, noted for his early poetry, which broke with the traditions of Arab classicism. Abū Rīshah attended the University of Damascus in Syria, the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and the University of Manchester, England. He was an early contributor to the influential Egyptian literary journal Apollo, and from 1940 he worked...