Mohammed Abdalbari

Abdelbari was born in Al-Manaqil city, Al-Jazirah State, Sudan. During his early life, his family moved to Saudi Arabia. They settled in Riyadh, where he grew up and completed his early education in Al-Jaradiyah neighborhood, one of the oldest and most densely populated neighborhoods in the center of the Saudi capital.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Abdelbari received his education from primary school to the undergraduate level in Riyadh. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in Arabic Language and Literature, he moved to Jordan, where he obtained a master's degree from the University of Jordan at Amman city.{{Cite web|url=http://tyreinternationalfestival.com/mohammad-abdel-bari/|title=Mohamed Abdelbari Profile|website=Tyre International Festival}} His thesis dealt with poetry in the heritage of Islamic philosophy, as well as with logicians, theologians and scholars of rhetoric.

Abdelbari earned early recognition for his poetry. While he was an undergraduate student in his early twenties, his poems were included in a poetry collection titled "The Modern Saudi Literature" that is required reading in many Saudi universities. Further, some of Abdelbari's poems have become part of the literary syllabus of public education in a number of Arab countries.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Further, Abdelbari's poetry has received wide reception both academically and publicly. His public poetry performances and media appearances have taken place throughout the Arab world and the Middle East. Also, his poetry has been the subject of academic reviews, articles, studies, and Master's and Doctoral theses in several universities of Sudan, Palestine, Libya, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia. His recognition has exceeded the borders of the Arab world to other cultural regions. Thus, people in countries such as Turkey, China, and Senegal have appreciated his poems in various forms, such as translations.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

In February 2023, literary magazine ArabLit published English translations of four of his poems and called his poetry "a journey in the Arabic poetic landscape that extends from the Jahiliya to this day."{{Cite web |date=2023-02-22 |title=New in Translation: Four Poems by Mohammad Abdelbari |url=https://arablit.org/2023/02/22/new-in-translation-four-poems-by-mohammad-abdelbari/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Arablit & Arablit Quarterly |language=en-US}}

Mohammed Abdelbari has so far released three collections of poems. These collections are:

1. The First Fire Elegy (in Arabic: مرثية النار الأولى).{{Cite book|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302987|title=مرثية النار الأولى|last=عبدالباري|first=محمد|publisher=دائرة الثقافة و الإعلام، حكومة الشارقة|year=2013|location=United Arab Emirates}}
2. As If You've Never (in Arabic: كأنك لم).{{Cite book|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21495878|title=كأنك لم|last=عبدالباري|first=محمد|publisher=دار مدارك|year=2014|isbn=9789948496960|location=United Arab Emirates}}
3. The Crescents (in Arabic: الأهلة).{{Cite book|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21495878|title=الأهلة|last=عبدالباري|first=محمد|publisher=دار مدارك|year=2016|isbn=9786144299074|location=United Arab Emirates}}
4. No Longer Blue (in Arabic: لم يعد أزرقاً)
5. A Song to Cross the River Twice (in Arabic: أغنية لعبور النهر مرتين )

Abdelbari has won several important awards in the field of Arabic poetry, notably:

• Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal International Award for Arabic Poetry (2019){{Cite news|url=http://suna-sd.net/en/single?id=213854|title=Sudanese Wins Prince Faisal Prize for Arabic Poetry|work=SUDAN NEWS AGENCY}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/culture-and-art/2019/03/21/-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%9F|title=سوداني وعراقي ومصري يحصدون جوائز "عبدالله الفيصل" للشعر|work=Alarabiya}}
• Arabic Poetry Festival (2016){{Cite web|url=https://timesofoman.com/article/98345|title=Sayyid Asa’ad opens Arabic Poetry Festival in Oman|website=Times of Oman}}
• The African Arab Youth Award (2016) at the second session in the field of poetry, co-sponsored by the African Union and the League of Arab States.{{Cite web|url=http://afrabia.org/en/1243/|title=Sudan and South Sudan won almost uniformly awards The Afro-Arab Youth council announces names of the Afrabia award winners|website=Afrabia}}
• The Snoussi Poetry Award from Saudi Arabia (2016) at the fourth session.{{Cite web|url=https://www.okaz.com.sa/article/1036833|title=الفائز بجائزة السنوسي لـ"عكاظ" قبل تكريمه: البقاء في الضوء طويلًا يؤذي القصيدة|website=Okaz Newspaper|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110183616/https://www.okaz.com.sa/article/1036833|archive-date=2019-01-10|url-status=dead}}
• Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity in the United Arab Emirates (2013){{Cite web|url=https://www.alittihad.ae/article/55689/2013/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A8-%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8|title=محمد عبد الباري: الجائزة تلعب دوراً ريادياً في اكتشاف المبدعين العرب|website=Alittihad Newspaper}}

• List of Sudanese writers
• Sudanese literature
• Arabic poetry

• [https://arablit.org/2023/02/22/new-in-translation-four-poems-by-mohammad-abdelbari/ Four Poems by Mohammad Abdelbari, translated by Huda Fakhreddine] on ArabLit magazine
• [http://www.adab.com/modules.php?name=Sh3er&doWhat=lsq&shid=749&start=0 The poet's profile in Adab website] (in Arabic)
• [http://alqasidah.com/abbari-poet.php The poet's page on Alqasida.com website] (in Arabic)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Ql45J1Pqo&t=20s Chinese university students read the poetry of Mohamed Abdelbari in Arabic]
• [http://www.alhayat.com/article/415702 Interview in Al-Hayat Newspaper] (in Arabic)
• [https://www.alaraby.co.uk/supplementyouth/9513f7bb-d19c-40c1-8cb3-debae5db37f6 Interview in Alaraby]

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