Qays Abd al-Hussein al-Yasiri (; 1941 – 26 May 2019) was an Iraqi media historian, academic and poet, best known for his studies on early Iraqi mass media. He graduated from the universities of

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in 1972,

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in 1976 and

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in 1986. In his professional career, he moved between several jobs, as he worked as journalist, media official and assistant professor. His only poetry collection published in 1970. He left several books about media and wrote various essays. Al-Yasiri died at the age of 78 in Baghdad.

Biography

Qais Abd al-Hussein Aziz Al-Yasiri was born in 1941 in the village of Al-Khayrat,

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, where he grew up and studied. Then he went to Baghdad and obtained a Bachelor of Journalism from the College of Arts at

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in 1972, and a Master of Mass Communication from the Faculty of Mass Communication at

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in 1976, and a Ph.D. in Journalism from

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, 1986. He returned to his homeland and worked in journalism as an editor and editor-in-chief. He worked for the Iraqi News Agency from 1960 to 1978. After that, he began his academic career as an assistant professor of journalistic editing in the Department of Media, College of Arts, University of Bagdad. He began writing poetry in 1956 and published his first poems in 1959, and continued to publish his poetry and critical and cultural essays in 1960s and 1970s. He left Ba'athist Iraq to Libya in 1997. He was appointed as a teacher at Al-Fateh University and the Libyan Academy for Postgraduate Studies. He taught media economics, specialized media, and educational media. Al-Yasiri returned to Iraq in 2011, worked as head of the journalism department at Ahl al-Bayt University in Karbala. Al-Yasiri died on 26 May 2019 in Baghdad.

Works

* , 1978 * , poetry collection, 1970 * , 1981 * , 1987 * , 1991 * , 1993

References

Citations

External links

Article by Al-Yasiri at archive.alsharekh.org (in Arabic)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yasiri, Qays 1941 births 2019 deaths Academic staff of the University of Baghdad University of Warsaw alumni Cairo University alumni University of Baghdad alumni 20th-century Iraqi poets 20th-century Iraqi journalists People from Karbala Province Media historians Media studies writers Iraqi emigrants to Libya Academic staff of the University of Tripoli