Egyptian Poet AbdelRahman al-Abnudi - Creative Commons via Essam Azouz
(World News Egypt)

El-Abnudi was born in 1939 to a poor family in Qena, Upper Egypt, and passed away after year of battling lung illness contracted from smoking. Writing in colloquial Egyptian rather than classical Arabic endeared him closer to the Egyptian populace who affectionately dubbed him `El-Khal` . ......