Badr shakira al sayyab biography of martin

“Badr is known as one of the greatest poets in Arabic literature, whose experiments helped to change the course of modern literature.” (epic-usa)Badr Shakir al-Sayyab was the son of a date farmer.

He was born in 1926 in Jaykour, Iraq. When he was 6 his mother, Karima, died during the birth of what would have been her fourth child.

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Some cite this event as a major influence on his heartfelt and nostalgic poetry later in his life. “Often homeland and mother are evoked in unison, or as two aspects of the same -- irrevocable -- sense of security.” (Rakha).After his mother’s death Al-Sayyab went to live with his grandparents.

It was at this time that he began school in the neighboring villages close to Jaykour. In his early years he was exposed to the realities of class differences.

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This period of his life can be seen as a source of inspiration for a lot of his early “Marxist” poetry. In 1938 Al-Sayyab began secondary school. He wrote most of his ear