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Junaid Muhammad Junaid (born 1955) is a Yemeni poet. [1] He worked as a teacher in Aden. His first book of poetry was called A Garland for a Qaitbani Woman. His poem "Identity for a Prophetic Body" was translated into English and included in a 1988 anthology on modern Arabian literature.

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