Abd al-Qadir Qitt

Dr Al-Qatt, before his departure, was a member of the Supreme Council of Culture and rapporteur of the Poetry Committee, and in 1980 he won the King Faisal International Prize in Literature for his book "The Emotional Attitude in Contemporary Arab Poetry." He won the State Appreciation Award in 1984 and eventually the Mubarak Prize in Literature, winning 21 votes from The committee's Voices (24 voices). He has a single poetry collection called "Memories of a Young Man." He has many critical books and technical and cultural works, including: "The Emotional Attitude in Arabic Poetry", "The Concept of Poetry in Arabs", and "On Islamic and Umayyad Poetry", as well as "The Word and the Image", "Issues and Positions", "In Contemporary Egyptian Literature", and other books and translations. He was a member of the Wafd Party at first, then left it to organize the Young Egypt Party for many years, which he also left despite his close relationship with Ahmed Hussein and Fathi Radwan. He then became the editor-in-chief of the magazine Al Majalla.

Abdel Qader Hassan Al-Qat (1335 AH/April 10, 1916–2002) was a prominent Egyptian poet, critic, and writer. He was born in Belqas, Dakahlia Governorate, and held a doctorate in Arabic literature and literary criticism. Al-Qat edited the “Poetry” magazine in 1964, and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University in 1972. He received the King Faisal International Prize in Literature in 1980 and the State Appreciation Award in 1985, and was the editor-in-chief of the “Ibdaa” magazine for theatre and cinema in 1983.

Abdel-Qader Hassan Al-Qat was born in 1916 in Dakahlia Governorate, east of Al-Masara in the Belqas Center. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts in 1938, after which he worked as an employee in the Cairo University Library until 1945. Abdel-Qader was sent to the University of London on a scholarship to obtain a doctorate which he received in 1950 at Ain Shams University in 1951. Dr Al-Qatt became the head of the Arabic Language Department between 1962 and 1973 and was elected Dean of the college in 1973–1974. He left Ain Shams University to work as Head of the Arabic Language Department in the Beirut Arab University between 1975 and 1982. There were four creative magazines between 1964 and 1992, the last of which was his presidency of the “Ibdaa” magazine. When he was its editor-in-chief, he contributed to presenting several young creative voices and provided the opportunity to publish new experiences, especially to poets in the seventies.