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Muhyi al-Din al-Hajj Issa, better known as Muhyi al-Din al-Safadi (1900 - 25 March 1974), was a Palestinian poet and playwright. He was born in Safed, raised and educated there, and in Acre and Beirut. He joined the Palestinian Law Institute in Jerusalem. He moved to Aleppo after the Nakba in 1948, and taught at the American College of Teachers until 1964. He settled there until he died. He has a book entitled “From Palestine and to It” and wrote the poetic plays “The Death of a Clip” and “The Family of a Martyr.” He is considered one of the leading Palestinian poets of his time, but most of his poetry was lost after his exodus from his homeland in 1948.
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Muhyi al-Din al-Hajj Issa was born in 1900 AD / 1317 AH or it is said 1897 in Safad. It came in the “Dictionary of Palestinian Clans” about Safadi’s ratio to him: “It seems that the title of Safadi came to him after leaving Safad. Muhyi al-Din Issa received his primary education in his hometown, and in Acre School he continued his preparatory education, and received his secondary education in the Sultanate of Damascus and Beirut, then he moved from the final class in the Sultanate of Beirut to the College of Salah and studied there for three years.
He worked as the principal of the Safed School for eight years, during which time he obtained a law degree from Jerusalem. He spent fifteen years as a teacher of the Arabic language in Jerusalem, and then returned to Safad as deputy principal of its secondary school, in charge of teaching the Arabic language there, until the catastrophe occurred in 1948. He fled with his family to Syria and settled in the city of Aleppo as a teacher of Arabic literature at Muawiyah Secondary School and Dar al-Maalmat five years. He taught at the American College of Teachers until 1964.
He was a member of the Muslim Youth Association since 1939. He died in Aleppo on March 25, 1974 / Rabi’ al-Awwal 2, 1394 or it is said in 1978.
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He composed poetry at the age of fifteen. Most of his systems were lost following his exodus from his homeland in 1948, and his memory did not help him with more than the titles of the lost poems. He was mentioned in Al-Babtain Dictionary about him as “a revolutionary poet. Most of his poetry came as a true expression of the catastrophes that befell his homeland, Palestine, the last of which was the great catastrophe of 1948. His poems urge revolution, and call for unity in the face of the enemy, rejoicing in what happened between Egypt and Syria of unity in his time, and he has poetry in lamenting the martyrs, especially his lament for the martyrs of the Al-Buraq Wall in Jerusalem in 1930, in addition to his poetry in admonition urging In it, the leaders of the Arabs and Muslims came to the rescue of Bait Al-Maqdis, which Al-Faruq Omar called for its conquest. He also wrote purposeful poetic theater, reminding through it of the consequences of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption of appreciation. He has poetry in the Brotherhood’s poetic correspondence that guarantees the concerns of his homeland, as he wrote in the lamentation of Ahmed Shawqi, Prince of Poets, and he has poetry in reminding the nation of its first knights, and he has poetry in praising science, its students and its family of scholars. He is distinguished by the same long hair, in addition to the strength of his language, the loudness of his voice with the ease of his structures and patterns, and his imagination is free. He adhered to the Khalili approach in constructing his poems.
His writings
“The Killing of the Clip,” a poetic play and historical drama in five acts, 1947.
“A Martyr’s Family: Among the Events of the Nakba of Palestine”, a poetic play, 1966.
From and to Palestine: a collection of poetry, 1975.
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