Amine Nakhlé

Amin Nakhlé was born in the town of Majdal Maouche in the Chouf district on 25 July 1901. He is the son of Rachid Nakhlé who was nicknamed "the Prince the zajal" and was author of the Lebanese National Anthem.

When Amin Nakhleh reached school age, his father sent him to a school in Deir al-Qamar. After that, he completed his studies at the University of Damascus (Faculty of Law) and at the French College of Beirut. A graduate in administrative law, he practiced as a lawyer from 1928 and as a journalist. He is the owner and editorialist of newspapers and became MP for Mount Lebanon in 1947. He is also a poet and literary man since 1920.

He was a member of the Arab Academy from 1967.

He obtained a good job in the office of the French Governor-General, but he rejected it and went to the law firm. The investigation is comparable to his fame in linguistic proofing, which opened to him the membership of the Arab Academy in Damascus, and shone his star and his name in the political circles in addition to his literary status as a slave poet has announced his candidacy for the presidency, and visited several Arab countries to seek the support of his fans and friends The governors then declined to nominate at the last minute

His father’s name is Rachid Nakhlé and he was a Lebanese poet, writer and journalist. He had a sister named Marcel wife of George Faya.

Among his works are his long story Muhsin al-Hazzan and his popular poetry collected by his son Amin Nakhle as Mu’anna Rashid Nakhle.

At the end of his life, Amin Nakhla worked on his memories, and involved his pain with his companion.He suffered a brain haemorrhage that led to his loss of memory, and his friends and supporters gradually separated from him, until he died in silence, without a farewell or memorial service, on 13 May 1976. In Beirut at the age of 75, he was buried in his ancestral country in Barouk Lebanon [2]. It was planned to pay tribute to two last-minute concerts, the first following the assassination of Kamal Nasser and his group by Israeli intelligence, and the second because of the 1975 civil war in Lebanon.

Amin Nakhlé's poetry is characterized by sweetness and tenderness and was echoed in the literary and poetic circles. This has increased because of his relations with the great poets of his time in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq:

This is the crown prince and assess the poetry after me

And the era of the Secretary of the best and early Saad

Whoever said poetry in people is Abdi Abdi

On this occasion, Amin Nakhleh himself said that one day, the mail carried a letter addressed to the "Prince of Poets". The message continued to pass from one great poet to another without anyone daring to receive it.

Amin Nakhla was a prose beside his hair, and his prose was elegance and ease abstained, and the topics addressed by Amin Nakhla in his poetry and prose three: spinning, nature and death. It is his hair in the yarn saying:

I love you in despair and wishful thinking as if I became of you, and became of me

I love you above what I expanded my ribs and over the reach of my hand, and reach my thought

Feeling groggy, tendering, divorced, on the plain of the reassuring youth

He was obsessed with death in many hours of the day and night, and in many of his positions laments himself when he laments others. He said in his poem "After Youth"

The youth and his soft age are gone

Is it back to the dice again and to me my next living

In the last Dimna, his neighbor, me every day a funeral exists

I rush to leave, and my companions preceded me on their news wanderer

Nature has inspired him with a lot of poetry and prose, and devoted a book entitled "rural notebook" and was characterized by the beauty of his style and elegance, in which he regains a daily image abounds in the countryside simply and spontaneously. It is prose in his book saying:

(A loaf enters the oven of the estate, and a thousand loaf comes out of it, my beloved, there is no God what I saw my eyes a loaf has red Khaddk, nor saw my loaf has burned as my heart).

He used to believe that the county-side will disappear in the future

In 1965, he won the President of the Lebanese Republic Award for Best Book of the Year

Amine Nakhlé only wrote one book in 1942 called al-mufakkira al-rifiyya, that talked about the innocence that presided over the people that live in the country-side versus the people that live in the city. Once the book was released it was viewed as a discursive event in the arabic world. In the book he encourages rural life because he believed that the city life was always about gaining more. When he published some chapters of his Mufakkira in the press he chose a pseudonym which was Fuad Effendi since he believed that the author should show himself through his works not necessarily by his name.