Summary
Palestinian poet (Abd al-Karim al-Karmi) named by Kanafani, with Ibrahim Tuqan and Abd al-Rahim Mahmud, as the culmination of the wave of nationalist poets from the beginning of the 1930s, and quoted for his chronicle of the 1936 revolt and its abandonment by the Arab kings.
Details
- Ibrahim Tuqan, Abu Salma (Abd al-Karim al-Karmi) and Abd al-Rahim Mahmud were, since the beginning of the 1930s, the culmination of the wave of nationalist poets who inflamed the whole of Palestine with revolutionary awareness and agitation (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.15 / printed p.28-29).
- Kanafani quotes Abu Salma’s poem chronicling the 1936 revolt for its courageous description of the bitter disappointment caused by the way the Arab regimes abandoned the revolt, and for its call to liberate the homeland from the kings (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.30-31).
Related pages
The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Ibrahim Tuqan, Abd al-Rahim Mahmud, Resistance Poetry, Surrounding Arab Regimes