Maymuna Abu Bakr (born 1948) is a Yemeni poet, songwriter and television director, the first Yemeni woman to publish a poetry collection in
southern Yemen
South Yemen, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, abbreviated to Democratic Yemen, was a country in South Arabia that existed in what is now southeast Yemen from 1967 until its unification with the Yemen Arab Republic in 199 ...
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Maymuna Abu Bakr was born in
Mukalla
Mukalla, officially the Mukalla City District, is a seaport and the capital city district of Yemen's largest governorate, Hadhramaut Governorate, Hadhramaut. The city is in the South Arabia, southern part of the Arabian Peninsula on the Gulf of A ...
. She holds degrees in sociology and English, and trained in television direction in
Egypt
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Works
* ''Khuyut fi-l-shafaq''
hreads in the twilight Aden: Dar al-Tali'a.
References
1948 births
Living people
21st-century Yemeni poets
Yemeni women poets
Yemeni songwriters
Yemeni television directors
Women television directors
Yemeni women writers
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