Background
He was born in Qena and completed his secondary education there in 1957.
He was born in Qena and completed his secondary education there in 1957.
He attended the faculty of Arts in 1958 just after his graduation from the secondary education stage.
He dropped out to work as an employee at Qena Court of Justice as well as the Customs Department of Suez and Alexandria and The Afro-Asian peoples Solidarity Organization for a living before the end of his first year in the faculty. He died in 1983 after long-time illness. Amal was born in Qfta, an administrative division of Qena in Upper Egypt in 1940.
Amal was given his name, which stands for hope and is commonly given to girls, because he was born in the very same year his father got his degree from al-Azhar University.
He died when Donqol was ten years old and at such an early age,the son had to sustain his mother and two younger brothers. He completed his secondary education in Qena in 1957.
In 1958, he enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. Before the end of his first year, he dropped out to work for a living as an employee at the Qena Court of Justice, the Customs Departments in Suez and Alexandria and the Afro-Asian peoples Solidarity Organization.
But he was always running away to poetry.
Amal Dunqol was known as the “Prince of Refusers" for his famous poem, "Do not reconcile" لا تصالح, it was originally composed and became a cry across the Arab world as a call to Egyptian President Sadat to not sign the Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1976. And now, as Arab regimes have cracked down on popular uprisings, people have come to relate to the piece in a different light, viewing it as a call to neither reconcile nor negotiate with their own tyrannical regimes. Amal died on 21 May 1983 after 3 years of suffering from cancer.