Ahmed bin Ali binAhmad shawqy . The most famous poet of the last era, nicknamed the Prince of Poets, he was born and died in Cairo. He wrote about himself: (I heard my father trace our origins back to the Kurds and then the Arabs). He grew up in the shadow of the royal family in Egypt, and studied in some government schools, and spent two years in the translation department at the School of Law. In 1887, Khedive Tawfiq sent him to France, where he continued his law studies in Montpellier, and studied French literature. He returned in 1891 and was appointed head of the French section in the office of Khedive Abbas Hilmi. In 1896, he was assigned to represent the Egyptian government at the Orientalists Conference in Geneva. He dealt with most of the forms of poetry: praise, love, elegy, and description, then he soared and addressed the social and political events in Egypt, the East, and the Islamic world. He was the first to excel in poetic dramatic stories in Arabic, and individuals had tried it before him, but he rejected them and distinguished himself. He wanted to combine the two elements of expression: poetry and prose, so he wrote audible prose in the style of the Maqamat, but it did not achieve success, so he returned to poetry.