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Saif al-Din Mahmoud Zaid al-Kilani
(1914 - June 3, 1968) was a Palestinian-Jordanian writer, educator, and poet.
He was born in the city of Al-Qunfudah in the Hijaz, and was educated in the
schools of Nablus and Jaffa. Then he moved to Jerusalem and studied at the Arab
College there, and from there he went to Australia, where he obtained a
professorship in education. He worked as an educator, inspector and principal
in the field of teaching. He participated in several international conferences,
representing the government of Jordan in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Libya. Then
he took over the Jordanian embassy in Morocco, and was appointed a professor at
the University of Rabat. He died there and was buried in Amman. He received a
number of Jordanian and Moroccan medals and has several books on education and
educational administration and wrote some textbooks for teaching the Arabic
language. He also has two collections of books titled “Khalat al-qlb” and
“Longing for the Homeland”.
his biography
Saif Al-Din Mahmoud Zaid Al-Kilani
was born in 1914 AD / 1332 AH in the city of Al-Qunfudah in the Hijaz, when his
father was an employee there. He was educated in public schools in Nablus and
Jaffa, then moved to Jerusalem and continued his studies at the Arab College,
obtaining the teacher's exam certificate in 1937.
He was appointed as a teacher in
Hebron High School, then as principal of Tiberias School, then resigned from
education and worked as secretary of the Arab Nation Bank in Jerusalem, then as
director of its branch in Nablus.
After the catastrophe of 1948, he
was appointed as a teacher at Kirkuk High School in Iraq, then as a teacher at
Ibn Rushd High School in Hama, Syria. Then he returned to Jordan, and was
appointed as principal of Irbid High School, then as principal of Salt High
School.
He was sent on a scientific mission
at the expense of the International Education, Culture and Science Organization
to Australia and obtained a diploma in 1954, then traveled to New Zealand, the
United States, Britain, and then France during 1954-1956. He obtained a
doctorate in education from Ain Shams University in Cairo, 1960.
Then he was appointed inspector in
the Ministry of Education, and undersecretary of the Ministry of Construction
and Development in 1962, then Minister of Construction and Development in 1965.
He was appointed Ambassador to Jordan in Rabat, Morocco, in 1966, then a
lecturer at King Mohammed V University in Rabat in 1967.
He died on June 3, 1968 / Rabi`
al-Awwal 7, 1388 in Rabat. His body was transferred to Jordan and buried in the
Greater Amman Cemetery.
Poetry
He wrote patriotic poems, and these poems were distinguished by “Arab enthusiasm, and a transparent and deep human kindness. He singled out Palestine, the first issue of the Arabs, in much of his poetry. He had more than one stolen homeland, as it is like the Arab depth, and the backbone of the Islamic nation. His poems were distinguished by the classic form, which He observed renewal in language and poetic composition, and his poems were known for their sobriety and strength of casting, and for the sincerity and warmth of emotion. Abdel Aziz Al-Babtain mentioned him in his dictionary and said, “The patriotic meaning prevailed in his poetry, and his spiritual tendency mixed with a human sense and Arab enthusiasm. In his poems, the features of the old and the modern meet, and the wording tends to be sober and novel.
His writings
Among his books:
Heartbreaks, a collection of poetry, 1994.
homesickness, poetry collection,
A Comparative Study of Inspection Systems in Jordan, Australia and New Zealand, Master's Thesis
An Experience in Technical Supervision in Jordan's Secondary Schools, PhD thesis in Philosophy
Explanation of selected texts for high school students, five parts by subscription
My book, the sentence method in teaching children, by subscription
The Solitary Teacher, translation jointly commissioned by UNESCO
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his prizes
Planet Medal of the third and second
degrees
Al-Nahda Medal of the first degree
Medal of Intellectual Efficiency
from the Kingdom of Morocco
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