# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-mahmoud-taha
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:42:53.146Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-mahmoud-taha"
name: "Ali Mahmoud Taha"
slug: "ali-mahmoud-taha"
description: "‘Ali Maḥmūd Ṭāhā (1901–1949) was an Egyptian neo-romantic poet and member of the Cairo \"Apollo Society\". He has been called several nicknames, such as: The Engineer and The Lost Sailor. The Egyptian literary scholar, 'Abd al-Majid 'Abidin, published an Arabic study discussing 'Ali Mahmud Taha \"al-Munhandis\" and Iliya Abu Madi in 1967, describing them both as reformist poets."
tagline: "Egyptian poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flickr_-_HuTect_ShOts_-_Nile_River_%5E_Palms_-_El.Mansoura_-_Egypt_-_14_05_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-08-03"
deathDate: "1949-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43
  momentum:             1.724137931034483
  historical:           7.282326666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "علي محمود طه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "على محمود طه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mahmoud_Taha"
    title: "Ali Mahmoud Taha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mahmoud_Taha"
    title: "Ali Mahmoud Taha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ալի Մահմուդ Տահա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B4_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0_%D3%98%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Махмуд Таха Әли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Таха, Махмуд Али"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%B7%D9%87"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump