Ibrahim Nagi Books

Ibrahim Nagy: He is one of the most prominent Egyptian poets in the first half of the twentieth century. He was the head of the Apollo School of Poetry, and he headed the Writers’ Association in the 1940s. He translated many English and Italian books into Arabic, and one of his most famous poems is “Al Atlal” sung by Umm Kulthum. Ibrahim Nagy was born in 1898 AD in Shubra district in Cairo, and progressed in education until he joined the Royal Medical School, from which he graduated in 1922 AD. Then he was transferred to the Ministry of Health, then he was appointed as a medical observer at the Ministry of Endowments. He was known for Naji's wide culture, which helped him succeed in the world of literature and poetry, despite the departure of his scientific specialization from this field, as he drew from ancient Arab culture, studied performances and rhymes, and read the books of Al-Mutanabbi, Ibn Al-Roumi, Abu Nawas and other great Arab poets, as well as the great Arab poets. Poets of Western civilization, especially the Romantics, such as; Shelley and Peron. Naji met many of the great writers and poets of his time, such as; Ali Mahmoud Taha, Abd al-Muti al-Hamshari, and Saleh Jawdat, who joined them in the Apollo School of Poetry, of which he was one of its prominent symbols. Ibrahim Nagy died in 1953 AD, in his clinic in Shubra El-Kheima, at the age of fifty-five