Personal Info
- Country of residence: Palestine
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Walad Ghazi Al-Jamal, may God have mercy on him, in 1950 in Gaza, and his family’s roots go back to the village of “Jamzo” in the Lod district. The family left Gaza for Jordan in 1954, where our poet studied in Zarqa schools from primary to secondary, studied in Yugoslavia, and got married during that period.
He obtained a diploma in mechanical engineering from Yugoslavia in 1977, then obtained a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Yarmouk University in 1986. He worked as an engineer at the Telecommunications Corporation until 1989, then he traveled to New York, America, where he worked in trade for five years. Then he returned to establish a commercial enterprise in Jordan with his family (three daughters and four sons), where he lived until his death in 2010.
The poet was active in literary and social circles, as he was a member of the administrative body of the Islamic Literature League, the Islamic Action Front Party, and the Islamic Center Charitable Society. Assistant President of the Jamzo Charitable Society, Assistant President of the Islamic Book Society, member of the Islamic Education Society, member of the Jordanian Engineers Association, and member of the Jordanian Herbalists Association.
His beginnings
His father, Muhammad Issa Al-Jamal, was a teacher and director with a broad culture. He wrote poetry and composed school plays, which included some of his poems, and he trained students in them to perform them on national and religious occasions. From his father, our poet got his poetic beginnings. He began composing poetry during middle school, and one of the teachers encouraged him and called him a poet. But the real, serious start came after university.
Our poet was distinguished by his great passion for the stories of the uprising and its heroes. He was interested in the details of events and people, and wrote poetry about them. I think that he wrote the most poetry about the uprising, its events, and its symbols. There is no doubt that Al-Aqsa Mosque received the largest share of his poems. As his daughter, Dr. Aisha Al-Jamal, says:
“His relationship with Palestine was embodied through two icons. The first is the icon of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was strongly present in many of his poems, even in which he talks about topics that at first glance seem unrelated to it, but he linked it to it because his conscience was preoccupied with it, and because he saw it as a true compass for the nation. The second is Icon of martyrs and mujahideen (symbols of the cause and uprising).”
He wrote and delivered these poems at speech festivals, poetry evenings, and national marches, and people interacted with their meanings that express them, their identity, their originality, and their adherence to Palestine, Jerusalem, and Al-Aqsa.
In 2007, our poet was involved in a traffic accident while returning from Amman to Zarqa, where he was surprised by a speeding car that moved from the other side of the road and collided with his car head-on. He was completely anesthetized for two weeks, and was like a complete coma. When he woke up, he suffered a temporary loss of memory, and he underwent long treatment after leaving the hospital.
After his memory recovered, he devoted himself to reading and writing. He regained clarity of mind and activity, and invested his time intensively. He printed his seven collections and his own research. He spent long hours working on the computer, learned Internet skills, and founded his own blog in which he published his productions.
His poetry
has a collection of poetry collections, including: Tears of the Firefly, Stand Tall, Nafh Al-Sayyir, Lanterns of the Throne, Durrat Al-Ashq, The Geometry of Words.
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