Leading Lebanese poet Saeed Akl dies at 102

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Leading Lebanese poet Saeed Akl dies at 102

Some of his most famous poems were sung by Lebanon’s top singer, Fayrouz, including the emotional “Take Me Back to My Country.”

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Published: Fri 28 Nov 2014, 7:16 PM

Last updated: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 2:38 AM

Beirut: Lebanon’s state-run news agency says Saeed Akl, Lebanon’s leading poet whose fame once spread throughout the Arab world, has died. He was 102.

Akl wrote his poems in classical Arabic as well as Lebanese dialect which he used to refer to as “the Lebanese language.”

Some of his most famous poems were sung by Lebanon’s top singer, Fayrouz, including the emotional “Take Me Back to My Country.”

Akl was born in 1912 in Lebanon’s eastern city of Zahle.


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