Muhammad Afifi Matar (Arabic: محمد عفيفي مطر; 1935 – 28 June 2010), was an Egyptian poet.
[1] During the reign of Anwar Sadat, Matar left Egypt for Iraq and lived there for several years due to his difficulties with the military regime.
He was also a member of the Egyptian Ba'ath Party and was one of six people arrested in April 1991 on accusations of involvement in an anti-government plot.
The scholar and translator Ferial Ghazoul has written: "Muhammad 'Afifi Matar [...] is known for the sophistication of his poetics, and the multiple allusions in his poetry.
He also contributed the text to an art book called, Twilight Visions in Egypt’s Nile Delta with photographs by Ann Parker.