Ibrahim Tuqan
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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.
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Quotes
[edit]- 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)