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Segal Al Rikabi
Born1950
Karbala, Iraq
NationalityIraqi
EducationBaghdad University, University of Reading
Occupation(s)Poet, cell biologist, and academic

Segal Abdulwahab Rikabi an Iraqi poet, was born in Karbala and grew up in Baghdad. She graduated from University of Baghdad in 1980 and got her PhD in the field of Microbiology and Cytology from the University of Reading. Rikabi studied in the Universities of Basra, Mostanseria, and Baghdad for years. Then, she started publishing her poems in 2013 and had anthologies of poems, which impressed authors and critics inside and outside her country as a prominent poet.

Biography

Sejal Abdulwahab Rikabi was born in Karbala where she finished primary and preparatory schools and grew up in Baghdad. She got her PhD in the field of sciences from Britain in 1980. After that, she returned to her homeland, taught and did research at the university. At the University of Reading, she studied Microbiology and Cytology, and her major was in the field of Cellular biology. Afterwards, she worked at the University of Baghdad, and she was chosen as the assisting cultural consultant in Australia from 1981 until 1986 then at the University of Mostanseria in Basra from 2007 to 2010, she worked as an emeritus professor at the University of Southern Queensland.

Literature career

Rikabi is a member of many scientific associations, as well as, the international writers union. During her educational years, she met many great Arab and non- Arab poets. She started publishing in 2013, and throughout the decade of 2010, she published her anthologies of poems “An Iraqi woman’s enchants”, that included over 77 poetic enchants, “Towards the Palm Orchard” that included over 91 prose texts, “The Moon never came out”. Furthermore, she participated with Arab poets in two anthologies of poems. Due to the influence of nature upon her, she wrote some English glimpses, similarly some of her poems were translated in English and Kurdi. In addition, she had certain interest in nature and the beauty of its symbolism that let it a path towards the nature of passion about existence. According to the critic, Ismaiel Ibraheem Abdou, she managed to set herself among the list of the major keys of writing that exceeds beyond her skies, lands and dreams. Since both individual and collective, alongside her passion about her poetic creations, the poet attracted our thoughts with her poems aiming at making a special impact throughout her artwork production, especially her pursuit after it. Further, she was described as “Creation, the universe, the awareness, being overwhelmed by the upcoming, restoring situations of yesterday and today and what might be attached thereto towards tomorrow, and she mixed the reality with the romanticism”.

Rikabi recited one of her poems for City of Bagdad, a UNESCO city of literature, for World Poetry Day 2019.

Publications

Scientific

  • The Ultra structural studies of Oogonial walls in Saprolegniadeae, 1979.
  • The Biology of the cell, a university textbook, 1986.

Poetry

Further reading

  • Ismaiel Ibraheem Abdou, ed. (2019). Muftataḥ ḫiyārāt al-asmāʾ li-kāʾināt Siǧāl ar-Rikābī naqd šiʻrī. ISBN 9789933628345. OCLC 1196090076. The Opening of names selection for Sejal Arrekabi Creatures.

References

Notes

  1. Rikabi's name has a variety of translations from Arabic to English, for example Sijal al-Rikabe.

Footnotes

  1. ^ al-Rikabe, Sijal (20 March 2019). Baghdad city of Literature-UNESCO — World Poetry Day — A Celebration of Women Poetry. Baghdad City of Literature. Event occurs at 156s. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022 – via YouTube.
  2. Al Rikabi, Segal. "شواعر من بلادي : على مرافئ شواعر لهن بصمة واضحة في المشهد الأدبي" [Sha'ir from my country: On the harbors, poets have a clear imprint on the literary scene]. مجلة جنى (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  3. ^ Al-Rubaie, Mowaffaq (2017-10-25). "قراءة في سيرة الأديبة العراقية .د. سجال الركابي" [Reading in the biography of the Iraqi writer Dr, Sajal Al-Rakabi]. جريدة العربى اليوم الاخبارية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  4. حبة, د آيات. "المثقف تحاور من بغداد: ديمة الشعر د. سجال الركابي" [Dima Al-Sha’ar Dr. Sajal Al-Rakabi]. صحيفة المثقف (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  5. "أمسية شعرية للشاعرة سجال الركابي – مؤسسة الحوار الانساني – لندن" [Poetry Evening by Sigal Al-Rikabi] (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  6. Fadel, Ahmed (14 November 2014). "الشاعرة العراقية سجال الركابي.. امرأة تترجم أحاسيسها شعرا" [Iraqi poet Sijal Al-Rikabi..a woman who translates her feelings into poetry]. www.almadasupplements.com. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  7. Jassem, Qahtan (8 July 2019). "مفتتح خيارات الاسماء لكائنات... سجال الركابي" [Opening options for names of creatures... Sajal Al-Rakabi]. Iraqi News Agency. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  8. "جلسة حوارية وتوقيع كتاب" [Dialogue session and book signing]. 28 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-12-30.
  9. Gharbawy, Rahim (30 June 2018). "سمفونية الانبعاث: قراءة في شعر الدكتورة سجال الركابي" [The Symphony of Resurrection: A Reading of the Poetry of Dr. Sigal Al-Rikabi]. المجلة الثقافية الجزائرية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  10. ""Sand" poetry by Ulyanovsk authors was presented at the UNESCO Literature Cities' Marathon for World Poetry Day". ulyanovskcreativecity.ru. Baghdad, the poets Mayada Mubarak, Charam Al Rubai, Sijal Al Rikabi
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