Al Zayed attended the school run by Sheikh Muhammad Saleh Yusuf, a graduate of Al-Azhar University.
Exiled politically to India from 1929 to 1932, he established the first modern printing press in the Gulf States and founded a cultural club in his hometown.
He learned to write from Sheikh Isa bin Rashid in Muharraq, became a Hafiz (memorizer of the Quran) at an early age, and studied the Arabic language and fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).
[5] According to Abdulaziz Al-Babtain’s biographical dictionary of poets, Al Zayed’s poetry uses "traditional long forms expressed in a direct, reportable manner.
His poems range from elegies to odes of praise to polemics, and some of the most famous discuss the pain of the human soul, especially in his exile.