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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Muhammad Haseeb Al-Qadi is a Palestinian poet. He was born in 1935 in Jaffa. His family was displaced during the 1948 Nakba to the Gaza Strip. He died on April 30, 2010 in Cairo, where he was buried and buried.
He began his writing career as a literary editor in the newspaper Akhbar Filastin, which was published in Gaza in the 1960s.
He was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces after taking control of the Gaza Strip in 1967, and he was dismissed from his job.
He then left the Gaza Strip for Cairo, where he contributed to the establishment of the Voice of the Storm Radio and then the Voice of Palestine. He later worked as director of Palestine Radio in Algeria and Sana'a.
He headed the task of editing Al-Ashbal newspaper, which was published in Tunisia and Cyprus.
His poems have been translated into English, Italian, Persian and Bulgarian.
Muhammad Haseeb Al-Qadi wrote a number of texts of the Palestinian revolution anthems, including:
Glory to the revolution
With my machine gun
street war
Hanna your rebels, my country
O our people in Lebanon
O usurper of our right
Some of them were composed by the composer Mahdi Sardaneh.
issued to him:
Diwan of Job's Wednesday, which includes one long poem
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Achievements and Awards
He won the International PEN Award for Poetry in 1995, along with a number of other awards in Tunis and Cairo.
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