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Zaki Mubarak: An Egyptian writer, poet, critic and journalist, he holds three doctorate degrees. The writer Zaki Abdel Salam Mubarak was born on August 5, 1892 AD in the village of Sentris in Menoufia Governorate, to a well-off family. In his childhood, he turned to writers, and Zaki Mubarak was addicted to reading since he was ten years old, and he completed the memorization of the Holy Quran at the age of seventeen. Zaki Mubarak obtained a certificate of eligibility from Al-Azhar University in 1916, after which he decided to enroll in the Faculty of Arts at the Egyptian University, where he graduated and obtained a BA in 1921, after which he completed his postgraduate studies to obtain a doctorate in literature from the same university in 1924. Zaki Mubarak did not stop there, but he traveled to Paris and joined the School of Oriental Languages ​​and obtained a postgraduate diploma in literature in 1931 AD. Mubarak continued his scientific career by obtaining a doctorate in literature from the Sorbonne University in 1937 AD. Zaki Mubarak was a student of Sheikh Al-Marsafi, who played a major reformist role in the development of literary and linguistic studies at that time. He was also a student at the hands of Taha Hussein, but he was a troubled student who fought his teacher, and did not settle for the silence of the recipient. Rather, he worked his critical mind and publicly expressed his confidence in his abilities. He said to his teacher Taha Hussein once during one of the discussions in the university auditorium: With arguments and evidence.” Zaki Mubarak assumed a leading position in the fields of poetry and rhetoric, and threw himself into the furnace of the 1919 revolution, taking advantage of this position to inflame the feelings of the masses with his eloquent patriotic speeches, and set off demonstrations with his fiery poems. Zaki Mubarak did not get his share of positions as a result of two main reasons, first: his literary battles with the poles of his time such as Taha Hussein, Abbas Al-Akkad, Al-Mazini and others. Second: His preference to stay away from the partisan currents that favor the British palace and influence; Therefore, the man traveled to Iraq, and there he was awarded the "Rafidain Medal" in 1947 AD. Throughout his literary career, Mubarak has written 45 books, two of which are in French. Mubarak died in 1952 and was buried in his hometown.