Gely Abdel Rahman
Sudanese poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gely Abdel Rahman was one of the leading Sudanese poets of the second half of the 20th century. Early life Gely Abdel Rahman was born in Gez'irat Saay, or Saï , a small island in the Nile river in northern Sudan. Ethnically from Mahas Skoot, his father migrated to Egypt in the 1920s, where he worked in Royal Palaces as Guard or in Ansh'as Elramel . Gely came to Egypt with his mother when he was two years old. He has four sisters and three brothers. He began writing poems when he was 7. When he was nine years old, he learned the whole book of Qur'an by heart, for which he has been awarded a Royal prize. Gely joined Al-Azhar school in Cairo, where he completed his primary and secondary education. His life in Al-Azahar constituted Gely ideas about the oppression and the social inequity, when most of Al-Azahar students at that time came from different African countries and resided in unhealthy accommodation conditions which led in many cases to students being afflicted by tuberculosis and dying because of that. Gely had been arrested when he contributed a student demonstration when he was a student in Al-Azhar.
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