Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad: Learn Arabic with Transit Station

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Welcome back to the latest episode of Learn Arabic with Transit Station by Yalla Arabee. Don’t forget that we translate all of these episodes, you can find them on our website yallaarabee.com/podcast

Today’s episode is about the life of Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad, who was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic. Al-Akkad was also an outspoken political thinker, who was even jailed for a time between 1930 and 1931 for criticizing the Egyptian government

His works include more than one hundred of books about philosophy, religion, and poetry, a philosophical study of the Qur'an and various biographies of historic Muslim leaders

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