Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'i.e. was an Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian poet of Lebanese origin, born in Egypt in 1 January 1880, and died in May 1937 in Tanta

Tanta

Tanta is a city in Egypt. It is the country's fifth largest populated area, with an estimated 429,000 inhabitants . Tanta is located north of Cairo and southeast of Alexandria...

, Egypt.

Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'i.e. became deaf after contracting typhoid fever

Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...

. Despite his hearing disability and the fact that he was self-taught, he became one of the most famous Arab poets

Arabic poetry

Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter...

 of the early twentieth century. He composed the words of the Egyptian national anthem Eslami ya Misr

Eslami ya Misr

Eslami ya Misr was the national anthem of Egypt from 1923 to 1936. Written by the Egyptian poet, Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe'ie, and the music is composed by Safar Ali.It is adopted currently as the song of the Egyptian Police Academy....

, adopted between 1923 and 1936. The words of the Tunisian national anthem are largely the work of Al-Rafe'ie.