Donqol was known for his politically-colored poetry. At the beginning, Greek mythology dominated his writing.Later, however, he relied more on pre-Islamic and Islamic imagery to modernize Arabic poetry.

Donqol's father, an Azhar graduate, who wrote classic poetry, possessed a library full of books in the various Islamic litering modes of which his son took advantage.He died when Donqol was ten years old and at such an early age,the son had to sustain his mother and two younger brothers.

He completed his secondary education in Qena in 1957. In 1958, he enrolled in the Faculty of Arts,Cairo University. Before the end of his first year, he dropped out to work for a living as an employee at the Qena Court of Justice,the Customs Departments in Suez and Alexandria and the Afro-Asian peoples Solidarity Organization.But he was always running away to poetry.

Donqol died in 1983 after a long illness.