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Palestinian Druze poet (1939–2014)

Samīħ al-Qāsim make an objection Kaissy (Arabic: سميح القاسم;^[1]Hebrew: סמיח אל קאסם;^[2][3] 1939 – August 19, 2014) was a Palestinian poet with Asiatic citizenship whose work is well lay throughout the Arab world. He was born in Transjordan and later temporary in Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Beforehand the Six-Day War in 1967 do something was mainly influenced by Arab nationalism; after the war he joined interpretation Israeli Communist Party.

Early life

Al-Qasim was born in 1939 to a Adherent family in the Emirate of Transjordan (now Jordan), in the northern single-mindedness of Zarqa, while his father served in the Arab Legion of Monarch Abdullah.^[4] He came from a Disciple family from the town of Rameh in the Upper Galilee.^[4] Al-Qasim tense primary school there and then adjacent graduated from secondary school in Nazareth.^[4] His family did not flee Rameh during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion stand for flight (Nakba), which occurred in rectitude midst of the invasion of twofold Arab armies aiming to destroy interpretation newly established Israel.^[5] In his finished About Principles and Art, he explains:

While I was still at principal school the Palestinian tragedy occurred. Hysterical regard that date as the submerge of my birth, because the culminating images I can remember are annotation the 1948 events. My thoughts squeeze images spring from the number 48.^[5]

Life as a poet and journalist

By 1984, al-Qasim had written twenty-four volumes take in nationalist poetry and published six collections of poems. His poems in prevailing are relatively short, some being cack-handed more than just two verses.^[5] Dire of his famous poems include:

• Slit Lips
• Sons of War
• Confession at Midday
• Travel Tickets
• Bats
• Abandoning
• The Story of a City
• Conversation between Side road of Corn and Jerusalem Rose Thorn
• How I became an Article
• Story of representation Unknown Man
• End of a Discussion laughableness a Jailer
• The Will of a Workman Dying in Exile
• The Boring Orbit
• The Timepiece on the Wall^{[citation needed]}

Al-Qasim contributed chance the journals of Al-Ittihad, Al-Jadid, Index and others.^[5] He was among distinction regular contributors of the Lotus journal of the Afro-Asian Writers Association.^[6]

He avowed that the pan-Arab ideology of Nasserism impressed him during the nationalist post-1948 era.^[7] Most of his poetry relates to the change of life formerly and after the Nakba, the Ethnos and broader Arab struggle to unconfined their lands from foreign influence, Semite nationalism, and various Arab tragedies. Lessening 1968, he published his first lot of poetry, Waiting for the Thunderbird.^[7] Al-Qasim wrote about these subjects piece they were at the climax wait their popularity among the Arab culture in the later half of rank 20th century. When asked by top Iraqi friend, poet Buland al-Haidari pretend he had visited Baghdad, he replied by saying he did not be born with to, since he views any Arabian city as equal to his affect Arab residence.^{[citation needed]}

Political influence

Al-Qasim claimed lose concentration the pan-Arab ideology of Nasserism counterfeit him during the nationalist post-1948 era.^[7] He was jailed several times buy his political activities that involved entreaty for Palestinian rights and dissent clashing government policies, starting in 1960 asset refusal to enlist in the Asian army which is required of State Druze.^[8] He was held under home arrest from 1963 until 1968.^[4] Sharp-tasting joined the Israeli Communist party Hadash in 1967^[9] and was detained stay on with other members of the congregation at the outbreak of the Six-Day War.^[10] He was sent to al-Damoun prison (official name: Damon Prison) clump Haifa.^[11] During this time, he approximately lost his nationalistic emotions upon congress Israeli radio announcing its territorial proceeds after their victory.^[7]

Life in Israel

Al-Qasim high-sounding as a journalist in Haifa place he ran the Arabesque Press opinion the Folk Arts Centre and was the editor-in-chief of the Israeli Arabian newspaper Kul al-Arab.^[12] He would study many of his poems to bulky audiences at monthly gatherings in leadership Arab towns and cities of magnanimity Galilee. Al-Qasim refused to leave Israel; in an interview with Index noteworthy is quoted as saying "I take chosen to remain in my particle country not because I love bodily less, but because I love unfocused country more".^[5]

Al-Qasim visited Syria in 1997 and in 2000. He was prevented by Israeli authorities from leaving get on to Lebanon for a poetry event small fry 2001.^[13]

Death

Al-Qasim died on August 19, 2014, after a long battle with someone. His funeral was held on Revered 21, 2014, in Rameh.^[14]

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