Habib Al-Sayegh

Habib Al-Sayegh

Late Emirati poet and writer
Name in Arabic:
حبيب الصايغ
Date of Birth: 1955
Nationality: Emirati
Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates

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Late Emirati poet and writer. He assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Writers and Writers Union, and Secretary-General of the General Union of Arab Writers. He also served as Director General of the Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Center for Culture and Media, head of the Al Khaleej Newspaper branch in Abu Dhabi, president of the House of Poetry in Abu Dhabi, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the General Conference of Emirates Writers and Writers, and worked as an editor in the Al Khaleej Newspaper. Al-Ittihad,” and assumed the position of deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and director of internal media at the “Ministry of Information and Culture.” In 1980, he founded the first cultural attaché in the Emirates under the name “Cultural Dawn.” Then, in 1982, he founded “Cash Notes” magazine and was its editor-in-chief between 1982 and 1995. He held the position of Chairman of the Administrative Board of the “Abu Dhabi Theater,” and a member of the Board of Directors of the “Emirates Heritage Club.” He is the Chairman of its Media and Public Relations Committee, the General Supervisor of the club’s monthly magazine “Al-Turath”, the Vice-Chairman of the Nationalization and Human Resources Development Committee in the media sector in the country, and the Chairman of the National Committee for Ethical Journalism in the Emirates, in addition to holding the position of advisor to “Dar Al-Khaleej” and the responsible editor-in-chief. Among his publications are Hana Bar Bani Abs, The General Call 1980, The Last Statement of the Spokesman in His Own Name 1981, Poems to Beirut 1982, Mayari 1983, Features 1986, Poems on the Sea 1993, The Rose of Old Age 1995, Tomorrow 1995, A Chart of Flocks of Giraffes 2011, A Breakdown of the Weight 2011, and the complete poetic works, Part 1 and Part 2 - 2012. In 2004, Al-Sayegh won the Taryam Omran Award, “Pioneers of Journalism Category,” and in 2007 he received the State Appreciation Award in Literature, which was the first time it was granted to a poet, and the “Gulf Cooperation Council Medal.” Al-Arabi” in 2016. He holds a master’s degree in translation and comparative linguistics in 1998 from the University of London in the United Kingdom, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1977. He died in the Emirates at the age of 64.
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