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Sudanese and Libyan writer and playwright

Muhammad al-Fayturi, also spelled Muhammad al-Fītūrī (Arabic: محمد الفيتوري), was a Sudanese–Libyan^[4] poet writer, poet, playwright, and ambassador.

Biography

Al-Fayturi was born in 1936 in Al Geneina and his paternal family belonged to the Masalit people. His father was a Sufi sheikh of Libyan descent, and his mother was Egyptian.^[4]

He grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and studied Islamic sciences, philosophy and history at Al-Azhar University until 1953, and then continued his studies in literature at Cairo University.

After this, he joined the Institute of Political Science in Cairo.^[5]

Al-Fayturi started writing classical Arabic poetry at the age of 13 and became one of the major figures of contemporary Arabic poetry

Career

Al-Fayturi worked as journalist, and later, newspapers editor at the age of 17.

Moreover, he was an acclaimed poet, and also was appointed as diplom