{{Short description|Egyptian poet}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox writer | name = Ibrahim Nagi | image = Ibrahim Nagi- Al-Alam, V1, Page 76.jpg | alt = | caption = Ibrahim Nagi | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|12|31}} | birth_place = Cairo, Egypt | death_date = {{death date and age|1953|3|27|1898|12|31}} | death_place = Cairo, Egypt | nationality = Egyptian | other_names = | occupation = Poet, Medical Doctor | language = Arabic | movement = Neo-romanticism, "Apollo Society" }}
'''Ibrahim Nagi''' ({{langx|ar|إبراهیم ناجي}}) (December 31, 1898 – March 27, 1953) was an Egyptian polymath; a poet, author, translator, and practicing medical doctor. He was among the contributors of ''Al Siyasa'', newspaper of the Liberal Constitutional Party.<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.|title=Historical Dictionary of Egypt|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-8108-8025-2|edition=4th|location=Lanham, MD| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQNSAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA388|page=388}}</ref>
==Early life== Nagi was also a doctor in internal medicine. Nagi's most famous poem is ''Al-Atlal'' or ''The Ruins'' which was eventually sung by Egyptian singer Om Kalthoom. He was a co-founder of the Cairo "Apollo Society" for Romantic Poetry. He married Samia Sami and had three daughters: Amira (who had a daughter, Samia Mehrez, and a son, Mohammed), Dawheya (who went to live in America and had a son- Ahmad, and a daughter- Shahira), and Mohassen.
==Bibliography== * ''Behind the Fog'', 1934. * ''In the Temple of the Night'', 1948. * ''Cairene Nights'', 1951. * ''The Bird Wounded'', 1953.
==The legacy of Ibrahim Nagi in the literary studies== The poetry of Ibrahim Nagi is an object of studies of several literary critics. Nagi's legacy was noted by Abdul Rahman Ghazi al Gosaibi, Hasan Tawfiq and Saleh Jawdat.
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090109000102/http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030325/2003032541.html Arabic News article on Nagi]
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