The Jordanian Ministry of Culture mourned the poet Yahya Al-Nimeiri Al-Nuaimat (known as Amjad Nasser) who died on Wednesday evening at the age of 64 years.

Jordanian Minister of Culture Mohammed Abu Rumman said that Amjad Nasser "will remain in the memory of Jordanians, and in the memory of Amman from which he started his first words" and wrote his first "praise for another cafe" on the streets and cafes of the Jordanian capital.

The poet, writer and late journalist was born in the town of Tora in Ramtha, northern Jordan, in 1955. He surprised his followers in mid-May on Facebook with an influential post titled "White Banner", summarizing the content of his latest visits to his doctor at London's Tcheng Cross Hospital. "Treatment fails in the face of pain."

Between capitals and poems
Nasser studied political science in the People's Republic of Yemen, and left work on Jordanian television and joined the Palestinian resistance in the late seventies of the last century, and worked in a number of periodicals, including "goal" and "freedom", and devoted to the work of cultural and media, which he carried to a number of capitals of the world.

He published his first collection in 1977 in Beirut, and in the early 1980s he turned into a prose poem, publishing several books, including "Since Gilad", "Shepherds of Solitude", "The Secret of Rak" and "The Breath of Breath".

In an earlier interview with Al Jazeera Net about the Arab Spring, the late writer said that the horizon is not rosy and the task is easy, but there is no way for our intellectuals and our people only to work to be a better tomorrow. This, unfortunately, does not happen without sacrifices. "Here we see these sacrifices made by our peoples for their freedom and their better tomorrow, with blood."

Nasser was forced to leave Beirut after the Israeli invasion in the summer of 1982, after he was in charge of cultural programs in the Palestinian Revolution Radio, and contributed to the founding of Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper since 1987.

He moved to Cyprus and Britain and settled in his journalistic journey in the New Arab in London. Transit effect. "

In the narrative and novel, he published "Knocking the Wings," "Here the Rose," and "In the Land of the Marquis". The late poet was one of the first to move towards the "prose poem" and translated some of his works into European languages, including English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Honor and memorial service
Nasser received the Mahmoud Darwish Award from the Ramallah-based Board of Trustees and the Mohammed Al-Maghout Award. In addition to poetry, he fought in the field of travel literature and narration, and his work is a novel entitled "Hana Al Wardah" (2017) was selected in the long list of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction at last year's edition.

For the late writer Diwan poetry entitled "Petra", published by the book "Tavern Books" specialized in publishing a single poem in an art book, and considered the newspaper "Guardian" British novel "Where the rain does not fall" of the important fiction published in London.

The late poet and writer received the State Appreciation Award in the field of literature, and the medal of creativity, culture and the arts awarded by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in recognition of his role in enriching Arab culture, specifically Jordan and Palestine.

Nasser received a few months ago the Order of Culture, Science and Arts in the category of creativity from the Palestinian Minister of Culture in recognition of his role in the service of the Palestinian cause, and handed him the Jordanian Minister of Culture Mohammed Abu Rumman shield of the ministry, and the Jordanian Publishers Union announced his choice of the Person of the Year for the Amman International Exhibition for 2019.

At a ceremony honoring the words of his friends, words of sympathy to the poet who lamented himself before he inherited his peers, said in a poem entitled "the outskirts of the day":

I died a lot

I kept scuffing myself under promises

Everyone who knows me knows how death becomes a dream

Her fiercest nights adorn her bed.