Damascus-SANA
The biography of the late poet and fighter Khaled Abu Khaled is a unique example of the resistance who mastered literature and the creator who carried his weapon in one hand and his pen in the other, striving to liberate the land through a bus journey that exceeded half a century.
Abu Khaled, who passed away at the beginning of this year at the age of 85, was distinguished by a high sense of struggle and a level worthy of Arabic poetry, according to a poetic modernity that combined authenticity and modernity, and among all these concerns, he was a plastic artist as well.
The head of the Arab Writers Union, Dr. Muhammad Al-Hourani, described the poet Abu Khaled as one of the most important poets of the modern era because he was able to achieve a modernity that possesses technology, originality and talent, in addition to his resistant work and his high patriotic sense, considering that his departure is an irreparable loss.
Researcher Najla Al-Khadra, rapporteur of the Heritage Society in the Palestinian Writers Union, said, “Abu Khaled lived the life of a Palestinian fighter in all its details. The poet of Arabism and redemption, and he sang for the nation, Palestine, and the Levant, which he loved and identified with its minarets and bells.
The late, whose number of poetry publications amounted to (12) collections over forty years and collected within his complete works “Odyssia” in “2008” talked about by the researcher Rafea Al-Saadi, member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Writers Union, and how he remained haunted by the love of the homeland and working to liberate it. Poetry and said.. He was a daring fighter, inspiring poet and a creative artist. He was missed by all the places he lived in or visited.
As for the writer Abdel-Fattah Idris, a member of the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Writers Union, he pointed out that Abu Khaled was not just a poet who was preoccupied with rhymes, weights, and music. His humanitarian career is full of struggle and struggle with the word and the national position.
The daughter of the late poet Bisan, who gave her the name of one of the oldest cities in Palestine and inherited from him a love of poetry, did not see his passing as a personal loss for her only, but for all the Palestinian people, but his legacy will remain immortal as his eternal belief in inevitable victory.
Bisan says: “My father believed that the word was an essential weapon in the battle to recover the land. He did not want us and my brothers to copy him, because he was sure that children are the children of life, as Gibran said. Describing the late compass for all the world's free revolutionaries and immortals.
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