Ahmad Ali Hassan (1916–2010), in Arabic أحمد علي حسن, is a

Syrian Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend ...

classical poet born in 1916 in Almlaja village in

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and died on 5 July 2010.

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Hassan wrote his first article and sent it to the Egyptian magazine called "The guidance of Islam," and it was published in 1935. In 1938, he published his first collection of poetry called "Alzfrat”. He also wrote under the heading "social literary collection of poems". In 1938, he joined the Institute of Islamic Religious in Damascus (now the College of Sharia) but did not complete the study. He worked in 1939 as chief editor of the newspaper "Voice of Truth" which was published in

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. He settled starting from 1948 in his job of Justice until his retirement in 1974, turning on the job between Safita, Banias, and Tartous. During that period, his name merged in the field of literature and culture, and devotes himself as one of the important poets of Syrian classical and was well-known in that period, participating in major poetry festivals such as “Abu Firas al-Hamdani festival" in Aleppo, and "Sharif Razi festival " in Lattakia also contributed in the founding of Al Zahra charitable society of and Okaz literary forum in Banias. He participated in the founding conference of the Arab Writers Union in

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and contributed in several conferences. Union also sent him as a part of its cultural delegation to

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in the early 1970s. He published several collections of poetry, including: Alzfrat, River of Beam, Dampness and Shades, Luminous Poems, on the Graves of Loved ones, Sababat. He entered at his early age, and his early cultural and literary life in the dialogue on the pages of some magazines, literary and intellectual with Suhail Idris and also with Albert Doumit. He also rebutted later in separate books on books by other writers such as Abu Musa Al-Hariri and Abdul Hussein Al-Askari.

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