hasan tawfiq (, ; 31 august 1943 – 30 june 2014) was an egyptian poet, literary critic and journalist. he belongs to the third wave of the arabic and egyptian literary movement known as "the new poetry." a major part of tawfiq's poems consist of free verses. tawfiq was known in the arab world as a journalist and in egypt he worked for some time as editor-in-chief of the "ar-raya" journal. tawfiq wrote articles for the "culture" section of the qatar-based "ash-sharq" journal. the literary alias of tawfiq is "magnoon al-arab." it derives from a middle eastern tragic love story, majnun and layla.