Abbas Baydoun(Is this your profile?)

Abbas Beydoun (born 1945) is a Lebanese poet, novelist and journalist. His poems in Arabic have garnered widespread acclaim and have been translated into multiple languages. Biography Beydoun was born in the village of Sur near Tyre in southern Lebanon. His father was a teacher. Beydoun studied at the Lebanese University in Beirut and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was involved in left-wing politics and spent time in jail as a young man in 1968 and 1982. Literary Career Since becoming a full-ti...