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Tratado de la Poesía Arabe (Treatise on Arabic poetry) is by Emilio Álvarez Sanz y Tubau, a translator and interpreter who was employed by the high commission that exercised administrative authority in the Spanish Moroccan protectorate. Alvarez Sanz lived in Tangier in his youth, where he was recognized as a distinguished student of Arabic. He later perfected his knowledge of Muslim law and the Arabic language at the seminary-university of the Maronite Order in Beirut. In June 1912 he was certified as a translator-interpreter, which enabled him to pursue a ...