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Mahmoud Muhammad Mustafa Bayram (March 23, 1893 - January 5, 1961), better known as Bayram al-Tunisi, is an Egyptian poet with Tunisian origins. He is considered one of the most famous Egyptian colloquial poets. The poet Bayram al-Tunisi was born to a Tunisian family, who lived in the city of Alexandria, in the Al-Siyala neighborhood, on March 23, 1893. Early in his youth, art linked him and Sayed Darwish, and the depth of their friendship, and brought them together in the artistic evenings that Alexandria was witnessing at that time, Bayram wrote for Sayed Darwish several songs. Bayram entered the field of journalism, where he published the newspaper "Al-Masala", followed by work in several Egyptian newspapers. Bayram al-Tunisi was exiled several times; He was exiled from Egypt to Tunisia and then to Paris, to begin his life as an exiled poet longing for his homeland and this appears in his works that he was doing while he was in exile. The 1952 revolution took place in Egypt, and Bayram rejoiced in it and supported it, and he said in it poems and poems. In 1954, Bayram obtained Egyptian citizenship. Then Bayram enters the artistic field and composes many songs and musicals, dealing with Umm Kulthum, Farid al-Atrash, Asmahan, Muhammad al-Kahlawi, Shadia, Nour al-Huda and Muhammad Fawzi, and has also presented many radio works. This prompted President Gamal Abdel Nasser to award him the State Appreciation Award for his efforts. In literature and art in 1960. Not a year passed since the Egyptian state appreciated him until he passed away in May 1961, after suffering with asthma, leaving to the following generations a great legacy of poems, poems and plays, and a broad experience full of lessons; Especially in the field of social struggle for the homeland, which made it rightly called; People's artist, colloquial poet, and pyramid of zajal.