Muhammad Sa'id al-Amudi | |
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Native name | محمد سعيد العامودي |
Born | 1905 Mecca, Hejaz vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Died | February 16, 1991 Mecca, Saudi Arabia | (aged 86)
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Language | Arabic |
Nationality | Ottoman (1905-1916) Hejazi (1916-1925/1932) Saudi Arabian (1932-1991) |
Years active | 1932-1991 |
Muhammad Sa'id al-Amudi (Arabic: محمد سعيد العامودي, romanized: Muḥammad Saʻīd al-ʻĀmūdī; 1905 – 16 February 1991) was a Saudi Arabian journalist, literary critic and official. After graduation from Al-Falah school in Mecca, he worked in commerce for a while, then held several administrative positions, including: head of the editorial board of the General Post and Telegraph Authority and the editor-in-chief of its magazine until 1971, member of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia from 1951 to 1954, chief editor of the Muslim World League magazine and Sawt Al-Hijaz newspaper for a while. He also employed by the Ministry of Education for several committees. During his official career, he published many works in the magazines of Al-Muqtataf and Al-Hilal and was a member of the Modern Literature Association in Cairo, which was headed by the poet Ibrahim Nagi. He died after a long illness at the age of 86 in his birthplace. [1] Al-Amudi wrote many essays, short stories, poems, and reviews. [2] A prominent 20th-century Saudi Arabian journalist, his complete works were published in 3 volumes in 2007.[3]