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| Born | إيليا أبو ماضي (Īlyā Abū Māḍī ) (1890-05-15)May 15, 1890 |
| Died | November 23, 1957(1957-11-23) (aged 67) New York, United States |
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| Nationality | Lebanese |
| Genre | poetry |
| Literary movement | Mahjar (The Pen League),New York City |
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Elia Abu Madi (also known asElia D. Madey;Arabic:إيليا أبو ماضيĪlyā Abū Māḍī [note 1]) (May 15, 1890 – November 23, 1957) was aLebanese-born American poet.
Abu Madi was born in the village of Al-Muhaydithah, now part ofBikfaya,Lebanon, on May 15, 1890 to aGreek Orthodox Christian family. At the age of 11 he moved to (Alexandria, Egypt) where he worked with his uncle.
In 1911, Elia Abu Madi published his first collection of poems,Tazkar al-Madi. Shortly after, he was exiled by theOttoman authorities[2] and he leftEgypt for theUnited States, where he settled inCincinnati, Ohio. In 1916, he moved toNew York City and began a career in journalism. In New York, Abu Madi met and worked with a number of Arab-American poets includingGibran Khalil Gibran. He married the daughter ofNajeeb Diab, editor of the Arabic-language magazineMeraat-ul-Gharb, and became its chief editor in 1918. His second poetry collection,Diwan Iliya Abu Madi, was published in New York in 1919; his third and most important collection,Al-Jadawil ("The Streams"), appeared in 1927. His other books wereAl-Khama'il ("The Thickets")[3] (1940) andTibr wa Turab (posthumous, 1960).
In 1929, Abu Madi founded his own periodical,As-Samir, inBrooklyn. It began as a monthly but after a few years it was published five times a week.
His poems are very well known among Arabs; poet, author, and journalistGregory Orfalea wrote that "his poetry is as commonplace and memorized in the Arab world as that ofRobert Frost is in ours."[note 2]
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