MAHMOUD AL-BRAIKAN was born in al-Zubair, southern Iraq. He studied law at
Baghdad University in the 1940s. From 1953 to 1959 he was a teacher in
Kuwait, then returned to Baghdad and completed his law studies in 1964. He
taught Arabic language and literature at Basra's Teachers' Training College
until his retirement in the 1990s. He was killed in his Basra home on 28
February 2002, apparently by thieves.
His poetry: http://www.masthead.net.au/issue9/braikan.html
Mahoud al-Braikan
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