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Volkhard Windfuhr

فولكهارد فيندفور

Notable figure 1937–2020 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 801 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Windfuhr, Volkhard (1937-2020)

From Germany; worked in Egypt and Lebanon

Field: Literary translation

Affiliation

Lecturer on Arabic literature; translator of Arabic poems

Biography

Born in Germany, he came to Cairo at eighteen, studied Arabic and graduated from Ain Shams University, worked for Cairo Radio for eighteen years and then at the Orient-Institut in Beirut. He lectured in Arabic on Arabic literature at universities in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan, and translated Arabic poems into German and German poems into Arabic.