ʿUmar al-Zaʿnī

Biography

Beirut poet, performer and composer Umar al-Zinni used the name Ustadh Hanin.

His teaching and court work accompanied law studies, disrupted after Hasib ya Franc prompted a Batroun transfer and university expulsion. Colleague Muhammad Krayyim recalls political imprisonment; archival research identifies Near East Radio programmes and late television Alwan min Lubnan. Birth years 1895/1898 conflict.