Ahmed Hijazi (poet)


Ahmed Abdel Muti Hijazi is an Egyptian contemporary poet.
Contributed to many literary conferences in many Arab capitals, and is one of the pioneers of the movement of renewal in contemporary Arabic poetry.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Department of Sociology at the University of Sorbonne, France, in 1979.

Positions held

He was the managing editor of Rose al-Yūsuf magazine. In France he worked as a professor of Arabic poetry at the Paris 8 University and the new Sorbonne University. He returned to Cairo and worked for Al-Ahram newspaper. He served as editor-in-chief of Ibdaa magazine from 1990 to 2002 when he resigned from the post. He was reappointed editor-in-chief of the magazine in 2006.

Poetry works