Damascus-Sana
Poetry texts and intellectual readings by Syrian and Palestinian poets and researchers were presented in the literary symposium held by the Palestinian Writers and Journalists Union at its headquarters in Damascus today.
The symposium held on the occasion of Palestinian Culture Day was initiated by Rafeh Al-Saadi, a member of the political bureau of the Palestine Liberation Front, with an intervention in which he explained that the Sykes-Picot borders could not separate us and that this land was and will remain Arab. She created a new dawn for the Arab nation.
The poet Khalifa Amouri, who moderated the symposium, made it clear that Culture Day is not only Palestinian, but also Arab and affirms the Arabism of Palestine in the face of all agreements, claims, and dealings of betrayal and surrender that aim at the disappearance and erasure of the Palestinian cause.
The poet Maher Muhammad recited a poem spoken to the homeland and another to the mother. The poet doctor Nizar Bani al-Marja recited a poem from his poetry collection The Master of Water through which he addressed the children of the uprising.
Dr. Omar Hussein participated in an intervention about the coincidence of Mother’s Day with the Palestinian land and culture holidays, pointing out that naming refugees is prejudicial to those who have been displaced from their lands and must be compensated for the moral and material harm that befell them as a result of displacement.
The storyteller, Zahra Al-Koussa, shared a story entitled Disappointment dedicated to the late liberated prisoner Ibrahim Salama “Abu Arab”. She also read a poem from his poetry collection, songs of a woman who lives in me.
The researcher and poet Bakour Aroub read a poem entitled Palestine, Building of the Land, and the fighter Muhammad Ali Faris also participated in an intervention on attachment to the land and the struggle to confront the calls for normalization.
Poet Jamal al-Qajah recited a spoken poem titled Narrated Siraj and Mehbaj that carried the concerns of the homeland, heritage and attachment to the land, while the poet Ibrahim Lafi recited a vertical poem entitled The Grip of Basir, which carried national and Palestinian concerns.
The poet Qassem Farhat presented a poem called the Procession of Slaves in which he expressed the Palestinian people's rejection of the suspicious deals that are being hatched against him in order to settle his case. The child Asaad Abu Sorour also shared a literary thought that he presented to the freed prisoners.
And the researcher, Dr. Najla Al-Khadra, indicated in her intervention that the Great Mother's Day is the feast of the Earth, pointing to the relationship between heritage and identity and emphasizing the view of heritage as a means to mobilize the masses.
And the poet Ali Abu Roza Renno read a narration sung in the soil of Syria and Palestine, entitled Syria, the title, to be the conclusion with the poet Khuzama Al-Shalabi, with a poem for Palestine and another from the narrated poetry on Mother's Day.
Bilal Ahmad
