Ali Mahmoud Taha

‘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.