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Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi: An Egyptian poet and physician, a scholar of the Diaspora poetic school, and a pioneer of the renewal movement in modern Arabic poetry, and to him is attributed the founding of the “Apollo” poetic school, which included poets of sentimental romance in the modern era. Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi was born in the Abdin district of Cairo in 1892 AD. His father was Muhammad Abu Shadi Bey, who was the head of the Bar Association, and a prominent member of the Wafd Party. Our poet graduated in the field of science until he joined the medical school in Qasr Al-Aini, and in 1913 he traveled to England to study medicine, and learned the English language until he became skilled in it, and became acquainted with its literature, then specialized in bacteriology until he became an agent of the Faculty of Medicine, then turned to beekeeping and established The International Bee Club, and he also founded the Society of Arabic Language Arts, but he did not like his standing in Egypt, where his innovative doctrine in poetry was hit with slaps of criticism and attack; He immigrated to New York in 1946, wrote in some of its Arabic newspapers, worked in commerce and radio, and formed a literary association in New York called the Minerva Association, which included a number of Arab and American writers and thinkers. He also taught Arabic at the Asia Institute in New York. Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi left the literary field a huge literary legacy, and he published a large number of collections, including: "The Weeping Twilight", "Ihsan", "Rays of Shadows", "The Torch", and "Fuq Al-Abbab". He has authored theatrical plays, including: “The Play of the Gods”, “Akhenaten”, and “Pharaoh of Egypt”. In the scientific field, he published a number of journals supporting this field; He issued the "Kingdom of the Bees" magazine, and issued the "Study Industries" magazine, and compiled the book "The Doctor and the Laboratory" in a huge volume. He passed away in Washington in 1955.