Ibrahim Touqan
Ibrahim Abd al-Fattah Touqan (إبراهيم طوقان, DMG Ibrāhīm Ṭūqān ; also Ibrahim Toucan ; * 1905 in Nablus ; † May 2, 1941 in Jerusalem ) was a Palestinian poet. He is considered one of the national poets of Palestine and the voice of the Arab uprising against the British.
Life
Ibrahim Touqan was born in Nablus during the Ottoman period as a child of the important Touqan family. His eldest brother was Ahmad Toukan , Prime Minister of Jordan , and his sister was the famous poet Fadwa Touqan .
He first attended the ar-Raschadiyya-al-Gharbiyya school in the west of Nablus and then St. George's School in Jerusalem.
From 1923 to 1929 he attended the American University in Beirut , from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in literature. This was followed by activities as a professor of Arabic literature at the an-Najah University in Nablus and as a professor at the American University in Beirut. He was also co-director of the Palestine Broadcasting Station in Jerusalem.
In 1937 he married Samia Abd al-Hadi, with whom he had a son, the architect Jafar , and a daughter, Urieb.
In 1941, at the age of 36, he died of gastric ulcer in the French Hospital in Jerusalem.
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Touqan's interest in poetry began at an early age, which is certainly due to the influence of his grandfather, who himself cultivated the traditions of zajal , and the encouragement of his parents.
At the beginning of his studies in Beirut, he published his first poem.
The central theme in Ibrahim Touqan's work is generally the liberation struggle of the Arabs, but especially the rebellion of the Palestinians against the British mandate that has controlled them since 1922 . During the uprising in Palestine from 1936 to 1939 his works gained considerable prominence within the Arab world.
One of his poems, Mawtini , which he wrote in 1934 during the revolt, was de facto the national anthem of the Palestinian Authority and since the fall of the Baath Party in Iraq and Iraqi national anthem.
Web links
- Ibrahim Toucan (Poets from Palestine)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Touqan, Ibrahim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toucan, Ibrahim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Palestinian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nablus , Palestine |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1941 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |