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Article: OBITUARY : Professor Safa Khulusi
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 5, 1995
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Safa Khulusi was a leading Arab historian, novelist, poet,
journalist and broadcaster, and a familiar figure in Islamic and in
Arab academic circles in London, Oxford and Baghdad. He was a man
of enormous intellectual capacity and an enduring love of the
written word, and his name became synonymous with Arabic literature
for generations who studied his novels, literary articles and
poems.
Khulusi was born in 1917, the son of a Baghdad lawyer. His
mother died when he was four and Safa first came to London from
Iraq as a student in 1935, at the age of 18. He obstinately refused
to leave the city during the Blitz, but returned briefly to his
native land during the latter stages of the Second ...