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Yusuf al-Khal
Lebanese-Syrian poet
Yusuf al-Khal (Arabic: يوسف الخال; December 25, 1917[1] – March 9, 1987) was a Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist, and publisher.
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He is considered the greatest exponent of avantgardistprose poetry (qaṣīdat al-natr) as well one of the pioneers of Arabic surrealist poetry.
With fellow poets Adonis and Ounsi el-Hajj, al-Khal founded the magazine Shi'r ("Poetry") in Beirut in 1957, initiating a movement to modernize Arabic literature.[2][3] His poetry has also been recognized in Near East poetry collections.
He published many volumes of avant-garde poetry and translated Whitman, Eliot, Frost, and others.[4]
Al-Khal was the son of a Lebanese Protestant minister and was Greek Orthodox.[4] He was raised in Tripoli, Lebanon and made his career largely in Lebanon.
Between 1944 and 1948 al-Khal taught at the American University in Beirut, where he had previously studied under Charles Malik