Ahmed Morsi was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1930 and grew up there. After graduating in English Literature, he published his first poetry collection and studied art in the Alexandria studio of Silvio Becchi. From early on, he became a part of Alexandria’s literary and artistic society. Later, living in Baghdad from 1955 to 1957 when it was a literary, artistic and intellectual hub, he nurtured his art criticism, working with Iraq’s modernist writers and painters, before returning to Egypt. In Cairo, Morsi co-founded and was editor-in-chief of the avant-garde literary magazine Galerie '68.
Ahmed Morsi is a renowned painter as well as a prolific art critic, journalist, translator, and, as this book reveals to a new audience, a consummate poet, with his debut collection published at the age of 19. Poems of Alexandria and New York, Ahmed Morsi's first volume in English...
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