Ibrahim Tuqan

Ibrahim Tuqan (1935)

Ibrahim Abd al-Fattah Tuqan [ إبراهيم طوقان Arabic] (1905 – 2 May 1941) was a Palestinian poet whose works rallied Arabs during their revolt against the British. Tuqan was born in Nablus, Palestine during Ottoman Empire times. He was the brother of poet Fadwa Tuqan and he tutored and influenced her to write poetry. Ibrahim belonged to the prominent Tuuqan family that governed Nablus for much of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Quotes

• The sword and the pen
  Not talking nor quarreling
  Are our symbols
  Our glory and covenant
  And a duty to fulfill it
  Shake us
  Our honor
  Is an honorable cause
  A raised flag
  O, your beauty
  In your eminence
  Victorious over your enemies
  My homeland
  My homeland.
  • Mawtini (1934)