Darwish Tedmori also known as Mohammad-Jamil Darwish Tadmori was a famous poet, teacher and philosopher from the city of Tripoli, Lebanon.
He is considered as one of the leading writers and poets from Tripoli.
Darwish was born to Jamil Tadmoury from the city of Tripoli in Northern Lebanon in the year 1901. He lived between Lebanon and Egypt. He died in 1982 at the age of 81.
Darwish Tadmori had his primary and secondary education at the Royal School in Tripoli, and then he traveled to Cairo, where he joined the Egyptian University as a specialist in the ethics of
Arabic language. Later on, He came back to Lebanon and worked as a teacher of the Arabic language and literature in the House Education and Islamic Education in Tripoli for fifty years.
Darwish Tadmori was a teacher to generations that carried the torches of community leadership, people who were behind the political developments in Lebanon, and the Levant in general.
Has lost much of his poems due to damage and negligence, very little of his Poetic production survived:
Al-Intikad newspaper from Tripoli has published a number of his poems, including: a poem eulogizing the deceased guardian – Issue 488 – February – 1972.
Al-Adeeb newspaper from Tripoli has published Excerpts of his poems in verses (3) – February 1992 (59) February 1994.
Some of his poems were also cited in the The Book of Poems from the North in the twentieth century.
Most of his poems revolve around the subject of Lamentations. He also wrote about the love of the homeland, as well as subjective and sentimental poetry.
In his poems he expressed his despair and the ridicule of his living conditions.
His poetry has been characterized by the language of ease, novel imagination and wit. While composing his poetry he committed to weight and rhyme.