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- Country of residence: United States
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Tawfiq Sayegh (1923-1971) is a Palestinian poet. He was born in Kharba in Hauran in southern Syria, to a Syrian father and a Palestinian mother. He moved in 1924 with his family to Tiberias in Palestine.
His education and his work
He studied at the Arab College in Jerusalem, and at the American University in Beirut, from which he graduated in 1945. He also received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1951 and studied comparative literature at Harvard University in the United States; He spent a year at Oxford University and then worked as a lecturer at Cambridge University until 1959. He then moved to the University of London until 1962; In 1967, he immigrated to the United States as a visiting professor at Princeton, Chicago, John Hopkins and Berkeley University in California.
Dialogue Magazine
At the beginning of the sixties of the twentieth century, he issued Hewar magazine, and after its publication stopped in 1967, he immigrated to the United States of America.
His books and translations
Tawfiq Sayegh has published three collections of poetry:
"Thirty Poems" in 1954 AD.
"The Poem K" in 1960 AD.
"The Hanging of Tawfiq Sayegh" in 1963 AD.
He has also published several translations, including:
The Four Quartets of T. s. Eliot, and 50 Poems of American Poetry.
He has a book on Gibran Khalil Gibran entitled New Lights on Gibran.
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His name was awarded the Jerusalem Medal for Culture and Arts in 1990.
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