Mohamed Elshahat

The poet Mohamed Mohamed Elshahat Elraghy (also known as Mohamed Elshahat-محمد الشحات الراجحي) was born in 1954 in the village of Ad-Dahreyah in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. He died in Cairo on October 2, 2024. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Arabic Language at Cairo University. His first collection of poems, Circling Around the Empty Head, was published in 1974 and won several awards, including the Egypt Youth Poetry Award in 1978. He was awarded Naji Naaman's literary honor prize for his complete works in 2023. Elshahat worked as a journalist in many newspapers and literary magazines in Egypt and the Arab world. He finally settled at Al-Akhbar Publishing House and worked as deputy editor-in-chief of Akhbar Al-Riyadah newspaper. Elshahat was also one of the founders of the Egyptian magazine "Masriyah " which was published in Egypt in the early 1970s. He is a member of the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists, the Union of Writers, and the Board of Trustees of the Mustafa and Ali Amin Association (Laylat Al-Qadar). Elshahat also served as a member of the board of directors of the Union of Writers in 2015.