Iraq is deposited according to Sheikh Jaafar

The late received the Sultan Al Owais Cultural Award.

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The cultural and official circles in Iraq mourned, the day before yesterday, the poet according to Sheikh Jaafar, who died at the age of 80, after a struggle with illness.

And the Iraqi president, Barham Salih, wrote on his Twitter account: "The Bird of the South, who has soared in Arabic poetry for decades, as a poet, translator, and again, has left our world."

Jaafar was born in 1942 in the district of Hor al-Salam in the city of al-Amarah, and received his school education in Maysan province, before traveling on an educational mission to Moscow to study literature.

He obtained a Master of Arts in 1965, then returned to Iraq to work in the press and cultural programs on the radio. He was also a member of the administrative board of the Union of Writers in Iraq from 1969 to the early nineties.

The late received the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation Prize for Poetry for the year 2002-2003.

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