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- Country of residence: Palestine
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When you are a poet who carries the love of Palestine in your poems, and a broadcaster whose words adorn Palestine, and you carry the concerns of your country, your tongue and pen will be more effective than weapons, and you will fight to defend it wherever you go... and this is how our poet is... defending the Algerian revolution in Germany. Defends Cairo from Jerusalem. He defends the Vietnamese revolution from Beirut, and the Palestinian revolution from Amman, and wherever he lives and travels...
All of this came together in a Palestinian Arab poet and broadcaster fighting on the media fronts... He is the poet Issam Hosni Hammad.
He defended Egypt with his radio voice during the tripartite aggression in 1956, when he was working on Jordanian radio. That day, planes bombed the Egyptian Radio building, and frustration and sadness took over his colleagues on the radio, and some of them even began to cry. Issam Hammad only entered the studio, pushed his colleagues aside, grabbed the microphone and said: The colonizer wanted to silence the voice of freedom, and he will not be able to. “Here is Cairo” and this slogan was launched on Arab stations... in Jordan “From Amman, here is Cairo” and in Syria “From Damascus, here is Cairo”, and so did some Arab radio stations, and the slogan was repeated in Arab capitals. Hammad had done it previously, when he was
in When the fighting broke out in Jerusalem, the Arabic section of Palestinian Radio and its companions moved the radio equipment on their shoulders to the city of Ramallah, and continued broadcasting from it under the title: Here is Jerusalem!
He defended the Algerian revolution when he opened a media battle in Europe while he was director of the Arabic section on Radio Berlin, the day they picked up on the radio a message about the killing of an Algerian citizen at the hands of a French colonialist in front of an Associated Press correspondent, in 1962, so he wrote his article, which spread strongly at that time. “Blood on the corner of the road” and among them “Do not panic, my dear... Everything is fine... He is just an Arab... He fell dead near me... He is one of the Algerians, nothing more and nothing less”.. This article had a great influence in the circles. Media.
Who is our poet?
He is the poet, media writer, translator, and activist, Issam Hosni Hammad. He was born in the city of Jerash in 1925. His father is from Nablus and his mother is Mrs. Aisha Zakaria Tahabsem (who was the first Circassian to marry an Arab). His father was martyred in 1936 by British bullets.
His older brother is the inimitable author, journalist, and translator (Khairy Hosni Hammad), who served as Secretary-General of the Palestinian Writers Union, Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab Writers Union, and a member of the Supreme Council of Arts and Letters in the United Arab Republic. He completed his primary studies at Al-Najah National School in Nablus (
was Ibrahim Tuqan was a teacher there, but Tuqan left in 1931, the year in which our poet joined the school, and they did not meet. He completed his secondary education at the Rashidiya School in Jerusalem and passed the Palestinian Higher Education Examination in 1942. He obtained a law qualification (Intermediate) from Jerusalem.
In Berlin, he learned the German language, studied theater sciences, specialized in television work, and obtained a diploma in (dramatology) from Berlin.
His professional life
His first career was in income tax, and in 1944 he worked as a broadcaster and assistant to the head of the literary department on the Palestinian Radio. In 1949, he married the Palestinian broadcaster and producer Fatima, daughter of Sharia judge Sheikh Musa Al-Badiri (the first Palestinian broadcaster).
In the same year, the family moved to Damascus, and Issam worked as chief observer for the Broadcasters Division. He remained in this position until the end of 1952, after which he returned to Ramallah and worked on Jordanian Radio as observer of public programs. In early 1957, he returned to Damascus again as an advisor to Syrian Radio. And general manager of its programmes.
He moved with his family to East Germany in late 1958 to work as an Arab official in the Arabic section of its radio station. He remained in this job until mid-1965, when he returned to Jordan to supervise the program that the Palestine Liberation Organization was presenting on Jordanian Radio. After the events of Black September, he left Jordan in the fall of 1970 for Syria, where he worked on the radio and in Al-Tala’i magazine.
He was a member of the Jordanian Writers Association, the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists, and the General Arab Writers Union.
Issam Hammad died in Jordan on June 7, 2006.
His works
- Studies in radio writing and directing, Radio for All, 1952.
- Dien Bien Phu, a poetic epic, 1954.
- A letter to my son, an extensive poem, Ramallah, 1957.
- A Comparative Study in German Art, by Fritz Kremer, translated 1959.
- The October War: its events and results, 1974.
- The Judaization of Jerusalem, an English translation, written by Rawhi Al-Khatib.
Towards a unified media concept.
Towards a contemporary national culture.
- Letters and pictures from afar, 1986.
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