Without formal education, his future work tapped into his vivid imagination, innate mastery of words, and intuition.
Maghout's work combined satire with descriptions of social misery and malaise, and what he viewed as an ethical decline among rulers in the region.
His first theatrical production, "The Hunchback bird", was originally a long poem that he wrote while in hiding in a small, low-ceilinged room.
He cooperated with Syrian actors Dureid Lahham and Nihad Qal'i to produce some of the region's most popular and acclaimed theatrical works, such as Kasak ya Watan (Toast to the homeland), Ghorbeh (Estrangement), and "Dayat Tishreen" (October's Village).
Al-Maghout is also known for his book "I will betray my homeland", a collection of columns concerned with the dream of freedom.