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About Shawqi Daif
- Ahmad Shawqi Daif (Arabic: ???? ???? ????; January 13, 1910 – March 13, 2005) was an Arabic literary critic and historian.
- He is considered one of the most influential Arab intellectuals in the 20th century.Daif was born in the village of Um Hamam in northern Egypt in 1910.
- He earned his BA and PhD from Fuad al-Awal University, which would later be known as Cairo University.
- He was later a professor of Arabic literature at his alma mater for several decades.
- He was a member of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences and was president of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo for a few years.
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