Homs-Sana
The writer and researcher Muhammad Ghazi al-Tadmari, who passed away last August after a rich career, was the focus of the symposium held by the branch of the Arab Writers Union in Homs.
The writer Issa Ismail recalled the cultural and literary activities in which al-Tadmary participated since the seventies of the last century. Samer Anwar Al-Shamali and others.
While the book Al-Tadmary issued in 1981 entitled The Contemporary Poetic Movement in Homs constituted a quantum leap in introducing the poets of this city since the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as his two subsequent books, Majalis of Poets and the Notebooks of Poets, which caused a great cultural sensation in which poetic debates were recorded.
And poems of praise and ironic satire that took place among the poets of his time, such as Suleiman Al-Issa.
In turn, the writer Ibtisam Nasr Al-Saleh praised the importance of al-Tadmuri’s books because she documented the cultural movement in Homs, pointing out that through her cultural meetings with him in the Al-Irshad Library, from which his stories were issued, she touched his dedication to work, less than his counterpart, and immersion in the cultural scene, which made him a scientist with the finest details of the movement.
Cultural Center in Homs, reviewing the testimonies of Arab researchers and writers who were contemporaries.
Al-Saleh referred to Al-Tadmouri's fictional works, including his two collections, a water banquet and a water bed, where he appeared as a skilled writer in the art of very short stories, as well as writing critical studies on this art.
Al-Tadmary was born in Homs in 1944. He obtained a degree in Arabic from Beirut University. He was a member of the Writers’ Union, literary associations and associations, and head of the media committee to support the Palestinian uprising and resistance to the Zionist project. He has written about forty literary and critical books.
The symposium was attended by an audience of intellectuals and friends of the late members of the Writers Union.
Hanan Sweid