399:, an Iraqi poet who became a refugee in Sweden in 1991, described al-Samawi in an interview in June 2020 as "my friend and my father's friend", saying: "We met almost every day in Stockholm and he always told me about poetry and about the murder of his martyred son, whom he remembered every moment... he was my permanent friend and the closest person to me after my mother and father. I used to talk to him about my life and he was telling me about his life... I was influenced by him and Abd al-Karim Kasid." From early 1990s, he was also in contact with Vivianne Slioa's relative, Salim Bolus Slioa. Samawi assured him that he was a
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in 1984-1993, to return to Syria again in 1993-1996, and in the summer of 1996 he moved to Sweden as refugee. He had witnessed the death of nearly all his family members, from his parents to his two sons, one daughter, and wife. His son Nasir was assassinated on 20 November 1991 in
Beijing, where he
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Following his denaturalization in 1954, his journey began to live in exile for many years and decades, which gained him, despite hardships, new acquaintances. Exile life gave him a new vision and culture that made him to see “what he did not see in his country or what he did not find in books,” as he
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poet and journalist known for his humanist worldview. From the 1950s, he spent more than half of his life in exile as a political refuge and was known by title "The Elder of the Iraqi exiles" or "The Shaykh of Exiles". He moved between many countries, such as
Lebanon, Hungary, Germany, China, Syria
248:, al-Samawi being derived from his birthplace. His exact birthyear is disputed. According to his own statement, he was born in 1925, whereas other sources claim 1919. Very little is known about his early years, except that he went to Baghdad to complete his education, and graduated from the
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was studying, and his wife died shortly after Nasir. His other son, Riyad was kidnapped in
Baghdad, after he returned from Germany, and he was a soldier in the Iran-Iraq war and died years later with cancer. In mid-2008, his daughter, Tahrir, died in London.
410:. He did not suffer from any personal or service problems, but complained of loneliness and alienation from his friends while abroad. Al-Samawi died on 15 March 2010 in his last exile, Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Upon his death in Stockholm, President
268:, issued a decision to revoke his Iraqi citizenship in 1954, and as a result of this decision he moved to Hungary as a denaturalized citizen, with the help of its government. He stayed in Budapest for several years. After learning the
319:'The Humanity'), but it was closed down in 1961. Al-Samawi criticized a statement made by Qasim, when he gave a speech in an organization in which he was renouncing the Kurdish nation as a separated people of Arab descent.
347:, and did not return home until 1973. But his stay did not last long when the Ba'athists began suppressing the leftist and democratic forces. He left Ba'athist Iraq for China in 1977, stayed there until 1980 when he returned to
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in 1956, a twice-weekly leftist newspaper. He left about seven poetry collections that have been translated into several languages. Al-Samawi died at the age of 85 in
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and Cyprus until he finally settled in Sweden. Al-Samawi published his first poetry collection in 1950 and was as a result was persecuted by the
276:. He continued writing poetry there, and some of his 1950s poems were translated into Hungarian, and were published in 1956 in a book titled
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in classical Arabic poetry genre. He rose to prominence as a left-wing realist poet and committed journalist in the next two decades.
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government. Later, he and his family faced persecution in
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