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Introducing Khalil Mutran

Introducing Khalil Mutran

Point 4 of 12 — Lesson 2: The Evening by Khalil Mutran and the Foundations of the Emotional DirectionQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

04Introducing Khalil Mutran

  • A Lebanese poet born in Baalbek in 1871, of an Arab Christian family called Al Mutran, tracing itself to the Ghassanids.
  • He studied in Zahle and Beirut, then left for Paris in 1900, fearing Ottoman oppression and its plots.
  • He migrated to Egypt in 1902 and took part in editing the Ahram newspaper and other papers.
  • In 1935 he was given the management of the national theatre company, and in 1947 he was titled "poet of the two homelands" (Egypt and Lebanon).
  • Among his works: translations of Shakespeare's plays (Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet), literary and economic writings, besides his diwan.
  • He died in 1949.
  • He is the pioneer of the romantic tendency in modern Arabic poetry, and his poetry is a transitional stage from conservative Revivalism to the emotional direction.

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