Summary
Palestinian nationalist poet who, with Abu Salma (Abd al-Karim al-Karmi) and Abd al-Rahim Mahmud, stands in Kanafani’s account at the culmination of the wave of poets who inflamed Palestine with revolutionary awareness from the early 1930s.
Details
- Tuqan, Abu Salma and Abd al-Rahim Mahmud are presented as expressing, in their poems, a profound grasp of what was boiling in mass circles (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.15 / printed p.29).
- Commenting on the 1932 establishment of the national fund to save land from being sold to the Zionists, Tuqan said that eight of those responsible for the fund project were land brokers for the Zionists (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.30).
- As early as 1929 he disclosed in verse the role of the big landowners in the land problem, attacking leaders who sold the country and urging a leader to abstain, if not from food like Gandhi, then from selling land (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.30-31).
- In 1929 he wrote his epic on the death sentences passed on the three martyrs Fuad Hijazi of Safad, and Muhammad Jumjum and Ata al-Zir of Acre, a poem that became part of the revolutionary heritage (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.31).
Related pages
The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Resistance Poetry, Wadi al-Bustani, Feudal-Clerical Leadership