Yesterday morning, the Palestinian poet Haroun Hashem Rashid died in the Canadian city of Misasa, at the age of 93, after he presented a lot to the cultural, artistic and media scene, in addition to his prominent position as a prominent poetic residence. Arab countries.
The late poet was born in Gaza in 1927, and he lived the tragedy of the Palestinian people since the displacement. And blood ».
During his life, Rashid issued nearly twenty poetry collections, including "strangers" in 1954, "The Return of Strangers" in 1956, "Gaza in the Line of Fire", and "Until our people return" 1965, "Ship of Wrath" 1968, and "The Storm Journey" 1969, "Fedayeen" 1970, "Lover's Notebook" 1980, "Diaries of Resilience and Sadness" 1983, "Stone Revolution" 1991, "Birds of Paradise" 1998, "Returnees" and others. Many Arab artists sang his poems, led by Fayrouz, Faida Kamel, Muhammad Fawzi, Karem Mahmoud, Muhammad Qandil, Muhammad Abdo, Talal Maddah, and others.
He also wrote four poetry plays, in which he starred on the stage in Cairo, "The Question", starring Karam Mutawa and Suhair Al Morshidi. After the 1973 Transit War, he wrote the play "The Fall of Barlev" and was presented on the National Theater in Cairo in 1974, and the play "Birds of Thorns", in addition to many series and sevens written by the Egyptian "Voice of the Arabs" and a number of Arab radio stations, and has several studies.
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture, in a statement issued by the late Minister of Culture, Atef Abu Seif, referred to the fact that “the departure of the great poet Harun Hashem Rashid is a loss for the Palestinian and Arab national culture. Freedom, salvation and return. ”