Mahmoud Saeed al-Karmi (Arabic:محمود سعيد الكرمي) (born in 1889 in Tulkarm; assassinated on 24 December 1939 in Beirut) was a Palestinian writer, scholar of Arabic language, poet, and political journalist. He is considered one of the Symbols of the national movement in Palestine and Jordan. He was born in Tulkram in Palestine for well-known family, his father is Saeed Alkarmi, his brothers are, Abdulkareem, Hassan, Abd al-Ghani and Ahmad Shakir. He was Graduated from Al Azhar in Arabic language. He worked in Arabic language field in Egypt and Eritrea, Somalia, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan for many years. He worked also in Journalism. He was assassinated by his political opponents in Beirut.
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Biography
Mahmoud Saeed Ali Mansoor AlKarmi was born in 1889 in Tulkram city in Palestine and grew up there in well-known family in literature. He got education in Tulkram, then he went to Al Azhar with his brother Ahmed Shaker Alkarmi, where he Graduated in 1919 in Arabic language.
In the beginning of his career, Mahmood Alkarmi worked as a teacher in Egypt's schools like Faculty of Dar al-Ulum in Cairo, also as language editor for theatrical novels like plays and novels of the Egyptian playwright Salaama Hijaazi. Then he moved into Mitsiwa city in Eritrea and taught Arabic language there for a while. After that he went to Damascus in the Syrian Republic, and he was assigned as an inspector for Maarif Huraan, then as a school principal for Almalik Althahir School. Then he went to Eastern Jordanian State to meet his father, then he was assigned as a principal for Salt Secondary School, then for Amman Secondary school until he resigned from the governmental job.