Adonis

Adonis , pen-name of Ali Ahmad Sa`id ( 1930 –   ),
poet and scholar, born in Syria, and educated at Damascus University; in 1956 he settled in Lebanon, where in 1968 he founded the influential magazine Mawaqif. Many of his poems, which explore classical themes as well as the tragedy of Beirut in the 1980s, have been translated into English, and he has himself translated into Arabic works by Racine and Saint-John Perse .