Biographies: Rox Bin Zaed Al Azzizy - Writer

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Jordanian writer and poet, born in Madaba, Jordan on August 17, 1903. He attended only primary school at the Latin School in Madaba and stopped studying in 1914 when the First World War broke out. His father brought him teachers to teach him French and English. He began his career as an Arabic language teacher at the Latin School in Madaba in 1918 and quit teaching in 1942. He then worked as a professor of Arabic literature at Terra Sancta College in Jerusalem until 1948. He became the first journalist reporter in Jordan when the Beirut newspaper Al-Ahwal recruited him as its correspondent. In 1976, he was elected to be the head of the Jordanian Writers Association. He died in Amman on December 12, 2004 at the age of 101 and was buried in his hometown, Madaba.

• 18 January 2022
• Christina Aziz