Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie
Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe' was an Egyptian poet, born in Egypt in Tanta, Egypt. His maternal grandfather was Sheikh Eltoukhy but was born in Aleppo and managed his business between The Levant and Egypt.
Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe' became deaf at the age of thirty. Despite his hearing disability and the fact that he was self-taught, he became one of the most famous Arab poets of the early twentieth century. He composed the words of the Egyptian national anthem Eslami ya Misr, adopted between 1923 and 1936. The words of the Tunisian national anthem are largely the work of Al-Rafe'ie.
