Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal

Al-Qaddal began his literary career in the late 1960s; he wrote contemporary Arabic lyric poetry and became known in the early 1980s for expressing socio-political messages through his verses.

Al-Gaddal went on to make an enormous contribution to Sudanese poetry, helping shape a poetic tradition that keenly digs into the challenges and sufferings of everyday life and gives voice to the neglected, disadvantaged, and downtrodden.

[4]In an article for ArabLit magazine, Sudanese translator and literary critic Adil Babikir discussed Al-Qaddal's modern version of the Bedouin-style musdar, "a long poem that describes the poet’s journey to his beloved".

Babikir further commented on Al-Qaddal "for his trailblazing role in taking traditional Bedouin poetry to new levels and establishing it firmly as a medium for addressing the themes of modern life."

The organisers had prepared a commemoration of Al-Qaddal's work "for his influential poetic mastery, startling images, wordsmithery, and verbal elegance.