Muhammed Mahmud al-Zubayri

Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Zubairi (; 1910 – 1 April 1965) was a Yemeni poet, politician, and revolutionary who was assassinated. He is considered to be Yemen's greatest poet in the twentieth century and one of the country's most celebrated authors. He has been known as "Abu Al-Ahrar" (the father of freemen) and "the poet of Yemen".

Biography Muhammad was born in 1910 in Sanaa in a middle-class family and grew up as an orphan. Von rechts, Ahmad al-Barāq, Ahmed al-Hoursch, Aḥmad Muḥammad Nuʿmān, Prinz Saif al-Haq Ibrahim, Muhyiddin al-Ansi, Muhammad Mahmoud al-Zubayri. Following the Dustor or Constitutional Revolution in 1948, which led to the death of Imam Yahya and the short-lived establishment of a new government, Muhammad returned to Sanaa and was appointed as Minister of Knowledge. However, the revolution failed weeks later as Imam Yahya's son Ahmad restored the monarchy, and Al-Zubairi had to leave Sanaa to Aden again, and then to Pakistan. When the 26 September Revolution erupted against Imam Ahmed in 1962, he returned to Yemen and became Minister of Education. He was later appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and a member of the Revolutionary Council until he quit in 1964. The Great Trick in Arab Politics

Famous poetry collections

Poetry Revolution, 1963 Prayer in Hell, 1960 Diwan Al-Zubairi, 1978