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Mahmoud Saif Al-Din Al-Irani was born in the Al-Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa in 1914. He was married and had three sons and two daughters. He studied primary and secondary school at the French Frères School in Jaffa until 1929.
He worked as a government employee for six years, then founded a commercial and newspaper printing press. He worked in teaching in Jordan since 1941, becoming the principal of Karak High School and the director of private education in the Jordanian Ministry of Education. He then held positions in the UNESCO offices in Amman, and was the director of the Arab Cultural Department in the Jordanian Ministry of Culture and Information, then a cultural attaché and advisor in the Ministry of Information in 1971.
The Iranian was interested in creative writing at an early stage of his life, and he wrote articles, short stories, and literary criticism. He corresponded with Arab newspapers and magazines in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait, and published his articles in the newspapers Al-Difaa and Falastin, and in the magazines Al-Shabab, Al-Lahab, and Al-Raed. He also corresponded with a number of Arab literary magazines and published in them, such as Al-Muqtataf, Al-Siyasa Al-Usbu’iya, Al-Thaqafa, Al-Tali’a, Al-Tariq, and Sawt Al-Jeel.
He published Al-Fajr magazine (a weekly literary magazine) in Jaffa in partnership with Aref Al-Azouni in 1935. He was the editor-in-chief of the Jordanian magazine Afkar, which was published by the Ministry of Culture, and he supervised the Jordanian magazine Risalat Al-Mu’allim, which was published by the Ministry of Education. Among his published works are short story collections, including: The First Shot (1937), With the People (1956), How Low the Price Is (1962), When Does the Night End (1964), Fingers in the Darkness (1971), Dust and Masks (1993). He also wrote plays, including Masks (1973). He has many literary translations, such as: Tales of the West and the East (1969), The Call, Leaves of the Trees, The Tavern, Dickens and His Works, and Turgenev: His Life, His Art... Selected Pages from His Works.
He has a number of studies, including: Jordan and UNESCO (1964), The Arabic Language (1966), Features of the West (1972), and Our Culture in Fifty Years (joint, 1972).
The complete literary works of Al-Irani were published (three parts, 1998), and a number of studies and master’s theses were written about him, including: Mahmoud Saif Al-Din Al-Irani, the short story writer (master’s thesis, 1980), Mahmoud Saif Al-Din Al-Irani, his biography and literature (a group of authors, 2000), and Modern Arabic Criticism, Mahmoud Saif Al-Din Al-Irani (2011).
He died on May 31, 1974.
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