Abd al-Rahman Fakhri: Difference between revisions

Abd al-Rahman Fakhri (born 1936) is a Yemeni poet and literary critic.^[1] He was born in Aden and studied political science at the American University of Beirut. He worked at the Yemeni Ministry of Culture and Information prior to taking up a position at the United Nations Secretariat.

Fakhri is noted as a modernist poet in Arabic. His first volume of poetry Etchings on the Stone of the Age came out in 1978, while his first book of criticism Words and Other Words was published in 1983. His poems have appeared in Engish translation, notably in Salma Khadra Jayyusi's 1988 anthology of modern Arabian literature.