aaj ik aur baras biit gayā us ke baġhair
jis ke hote hue hote the zamāne mere
Dr. Zubair Farooq who is the first urdu poet from U.A.E was born on 19th August 1956 in dubai. He studied in Dow Medical College Karachi and during the education he learned Urdu language. As many as 40 collections of his Urdu poetry and ghazals have been published so far. He had also composed poetry in Arabic and English. Some of his poetic collections are 'Sard mausam ki dhoop', 'Ek Arab jab Urdu bole' etc.