Signing a collection of Nabati poetry by the poet Al-Afidli

Al-Hasakah-SANA

Fifty-six poems from Nabati heritage poetry dominated by patriotic, emotional and social themes included in the Diwan (photographer at Al-Asha) by the poet Abdul Karim Al-Afidli, who celebrated his signature in the city of Hasaka today.

The signing ceremony of the Diwan, which was held by the Safsaf Al-Khabour Cultural and Al-Birr and Al-Ihsan Charitable Associations, included a variety of poetry readings from the Diwan’s poems, studies and literary testimonies about the content of his poems and the poet’s experience in writing Nabati poetry, which is one of the most prominent types of heritage poetry in the environment of the Syrian island.

The poet Al-Afidli indicated in a statement to SANA reporter that he chose to publish his first collection of Nabati poetry despite the extension of his poetic activity within the various types of poems for more than twenty years because he is the son of an environment rich in literature and poems that preserved history, days and customs.

Al-Afidli talks about a phenomenon that occurred among the late folk poets when they presented lyrical colors such as admonition and mawlia to the poem, which is an expression of our identity and belonging to the country of civilization, heritage and beautiful cultural diversity.

Al-Afidli chose different poems in his poetry, in which he focused on the patriotic aspect and his love and pride for the homeland, in addition to poems that include self-philosophy and social criticism of customs that have spread in recent years that have nothing to do with our society and the poet’s attempt to warn them, pointing out that the nature of writing was distinguished by the easy and abstaining style, so that the poem was closer to classical And to the minds and hearts of readers.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Safsaf Al-Khabour Society, researcher Ahmed Al-Hussein explained that the celebration of the signing of the Diwan comes within the framework of interest in Nabati poetry, one of the colors of the folk poetic heritage, whose name varies from place to place.

Al-Hussein explained that the reader is faced with an experience in which the poet was able to marry between the heritage and the contemporary, between the past and the present, and to wear the mantle of yesterday in the spirit of today. Critical at times and advice at other times.

It is noteworthy that the Diwan was printed in Dar Al-Arab in Damascus and contains 135 pages of medium pieces.

Nizar Hassan