Ali Mahmoud Taha
‘Ali Maḥmūd Ṭāhā was an Egyptian neo-romantic poet and member of the Cairo "Apollo Society". He has been called several nicknames, such as: The Engineer and The Lost Sailor. The Egyptian literary scholar, 'Abd al-Majid 'Abidin, published an Arabic study discussing 'Ali Mahmud Taha "al-Munhandis" and Iliya Abu Madi in 1967, describing them both as reformist poets.
Nevertheless, Taha was not as immersed in romanticism as Ibrahim Nagi and Mohammad al-Hamshari.
Furthermore, Taha's poets were politically-colored, but even provocative and patriotic, despite his death, which was before the Egyptian [Revolution of 1952|23rd-of-July Revolution]. He was among the contributors of Al Siyasa, newspaper of the Liberal [Constitutional Party (Egypt)|Liberal Constitutional Party].