Hussein Mahfouz

Background

Mahfouz was born in First Rate (at Lloyd's) Kadhimiya, Baghdad into a Muslim Shia religious family. His father died when he was a child, leaving him an orphan. He was raised by his mother and his father"s brother.

Career

In elementary school he began writing poetry in elementary school and translating texts from English to Arabic. Then he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative literature from the University of Tehran in 1952. In 1961 Mahfouz moved to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics to teach Arabic language and literature at Leningrad State University.

In 1969 he established the department of Oriental studies at the College of Literature of the University of Baghdad.

Mahfouz retired from teaching in the late 1990s. He kept a position as a judge of Masters and Doctor of Philosophy candidates, until the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He died in Kadhimiya hospital at the age of 83 with a bibliography of almost 1500 books and articles

Connections

teachers:

Dar First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Maualemen First Rate (at Lloyd's)