13 Facts About Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh was a Bahraini writer and poet, generally considered to be one of Bahrain's greatest poets and one of the leaders of the Bahraini literary movement in the 20th century.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh's father was from Manama, Bahrain and his mother was from Iraq.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh returned to Bombay in 1926 and enrolled at a local school where he earned his high school diploma.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh later studied Urdu literature at the Aligarh Muslim University.

In 1927, Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh returned to Bahrain and was appointed as an English teacher in the Hidaya al-Khalifa school, a position he held for four years.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh later became the deputy director of the Jafari school though he was forced to quit his job over disputes with the British colonial authorities.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh later returned to Bahrain where he worked for the Bahrain Petroleum Company until 1967, when he retired.

Since the age of 18, Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh began writing poetry, with his first set of poems being published in Baghdad in 1931.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh's poems were popular in Iraq, Syria and Egypt; such that the American University of Beirut asked him to deliver lectures on Arab literature, which he had agreed to.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh was awarded the Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa Order - First Class, by the Bahraini government.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh was a noted reformer setting up a school, and was appointed head of the Constitutional Council by Sheikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, who was responsible for developing Bahrain's Constitution in the early 1970s prior to independence from the United Kingdom.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh died in May 2002 at the age of 94, after suffering breathing problems.

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh was buried in the "Manama Graveyard" next to his daughter the late Layla Al-Arrayedh who died in 2001 just before her father died.