Damascus-SANA
The Palestinian poet, plastic artist and fighter Khaled Abu Khaled passed away this evening in Damascus at the age of 84.
Abu Khaled, who was mourned by the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers and the Union of Arab Writers in Syria, suffered in his last years from many health crises, without that discouraging him from following up and attending cultural activities, especially those related to the resistance and its symbols. Martyr Naji Al-Ali last month.
The deceased was born in 1937 in the village of Silat Al Dhahr in Jenin district in Palestine. His father was one of the fighters against the British occupation and the Zionist gangs and participated in the 1936 revolution, where he was martyred and his son was not yet one year old.
Abu Khaled lived his childhood and youth in difficult circumstances and was forced to work in many professions, and after obtaining his secondary certificate, he worked on radio and television in Kuwait and Syria as a broadcaster and programmer due to his distinguished voice, expressive speech, and his extensive culture. Jordan.
Abu Khaled entered the gate of literature from the rehab of Abi al-Funun and issued a play entitled Fathi in 1969. Then he went to the world of poetry and issued his first collection entitled Poems Engraved on the Ashrafieh Obelisk in 1971, then his publications followed, reaching twelve groups over forty years, all collected within his complete works under The name of the Odyssey and his poems, according to critics, were characterized by their tendency to modernity and renewal, their preservation of music, and their direct and symbolic connection to the Palestinian cause.
The other side of Abu Khaled's creativity was plastic art, so he left many paintings in oil paintings in which he recorded events from the history of Palestine.
Dr. Muhammad Al-Hourani, head of the Arab Writers Union, says that the late man was unique in his combination of struggle, resistance and literary creativity. He was the kind of Arab knights in the bygone days, and he did not compromise on his stances facing the occupation and adhered to his belonging to Palestine and the Levant, considering that he is a role model for generations and a biography that we recall with pride and reverence.
