Adonis (poet) — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on the Syrian poet Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber); used for entity facts only. It gives his birth on 1 January 1930 at the village of al-Qassabin to an Alawite farming family, his education, his imprisonment for membership in the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the magazines Shi'r and Mawaqif, and his self-description as a 'pagan mystic' in his Identité inachevée together with his opposition to religion as an institution imposed on society.