Ahmed Meshari Al-Adwani was a Kuwaiti poet, writer and teacher. He was born in 1923 in Kuwait.
He went to school in Kuwait then left to go to Egypt to study at the College of Arabic Language Studies at Al-Azhar University.
After 5 graduating in 1949 with the title of Sheikh he went on to co-edit Al-Be'thah a monthly magazine based in Cairo.
Despite this setback in 1952 Al-Adwani helped to establish Al-Ra'ed magazine published by the Kuwait Teachers Club.
Throughout his life he helped to establish countless other 10 magazines.
In his commitment to Arabic culture Al-Adwani helped to transform Kuwait into an important cultural, social and artistic capital in the Middle East.
He helped with the establishment of the Fine Arts Gallery, the Department of is Arabian Culture and the Department of Musical Culture, but perhaps his most well-known contribution to Kuwait is his skillful penmanship of the Kuwaiti national anthem, which was first broadcast on 25 February 1978.
Al-Adwani died in 1990, at the age of 67. He left behind an extensive collection of unpublished and unedited stories, poems and scripts.
Since his death, many of these have been printed in posthumous collections.
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