As-Suwayda Writers Union celebrates the experience of the late writer Saeed Abu Al-Hassan

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The experience of the late writer Saeed Abul-Hassan and his literary, intellectual and militant career formed the centerpiece of an honorary symposium organized by the branch of the Arab Writers Union in As-Suwayda today at its headquarters in remembrance and appreciation of the late life, which was full of knowledge, giving and struggle.

The head of the Arab Writers Union branch in Sweida, writer Wejdan Abu Mahmoud, explained that the event comes within the framework of celebrating and shedding light on the figures that influenced cultural and intellectual life and added a lot to it, indicating that the late writer had pioneering thought and values ​​that etched deep in the memory and history of the governorate.

The writer Dr. Ghassan Al-Matni, a relative of the late writer, reviewed during the symposium aspects of Abu Al-Hassan’s career and features of his personality and thought and his political, social, unionist, intellectual and cultural struggle, pointing out that he devoted most of his life to establishing social, intellectual and moral values ​​in his writings and behavior that expressed a new enlightening thought based in his work on rationality And morality and his criticism of many customs and traditions, which he saw as an obstacle to progress.

The researcher Dr. Fendi Abu Fakhr presented illuminations from the life of the late writer, struggle and struggle as a pioneering figure in Syria and the Arab world. Old age is about providing science, knowledge and deepening culture to each student.

The retired teacher Adnan Al-Zaghiz pointed out that the late writer was a multi-talented personality, one of which was poetry that he composed in Arabic and French, through which he kept pace with national, patriotic and social events, and possessed great qualifications to delve into the sea of ​​Arabic literature, armed with an encyclopedic heritage and historical culture.

The symposium, which was attended by a number of members of the Executive Office of the Arab Writers Union in Syria and a crowd of writers, thinkers and those interested in the governorate, was accompanied by the opening of a hall bearing the name of the writer at the Writers Union branch, with a shield of appreciation presented to his family in appreciation of his rich career.

The late writer was born in the village of Arman in Sweida in 1912. He holds a degree in law from the French Institute of Law in Beirut. He also obtained a special certificate in the history of Arabic literature at the Institute of Oriental Literature in Beirut. He has many literary and cognitive effects, including books, studies and biographies, in addition to poetry collections and a children’s story. (A letter to my son) In the field of translation, he has translations from French, including (The Right, Law, People and Government) by Victor Hugo and others.

Abul-Hassan also presented and published many articles, stories and poems in important Syrian and Arab magazines and newspapers, in addition to his publication in 1951 (Al-Khabour) magazine in the city of Qamishli. .

Ghassan Khiou

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