Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm
حافظ إبراهيم
- Born
- 1872
- Asyut Governorate
- Died
- 1932
- Cairo
- Roles
- Author, Poet / lyricist
Biography
Hafiz Ibrahim was a Dairut poet, author and translator known as the Poet of the Nile.
His work includes an Arabic adaptation of Hugo’s Les Misérables, Layali Satih and Misr tatahaddath an nafsiha. He headed the National Library’s literary department from 1911. Conflicting birth/death details are retained; death year 1932 is supported.