Abu Salma

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Writer Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Template:Langx), (1909–11 October 1980), known as Abu Salma ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), was a famous Palestinian Arab poet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was born in Tulkarm and was a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was the recipient of several awards and was chairman of the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Journalists until his death.<ref name=":0" />

Biography

Abu Salma was born in 1909 in Tulkarm.<ref name=":1" /> He studied law and worked in Haifa in Mandatory Palestine until April 1948. He then moved briefly to Acre and then to Damascus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Gelvin, James L. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History. Fourth edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 166. </ref> He also worked briefly for Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was a participant in the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, and his verses about the revolt circulated in the local press as well as orally among Palestinians.<ref>Nassar, Maha. Review of The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire by Matthew Kraig Kelly. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 49, no. 4 (Spring 2019): 695–97.</ref>

He is the brother of Hasan Karmi, Mahmoud Al-Karmi and Abdul-Ghani Al-Karmi.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Works

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Abu Salma and Yasser Arafat

Poetry

• The Exile, 1953.<ref name=":1" />
• Songs of My Country, 1959.<ref name=":1" />
• Children's Songs, 1964.<ref name=":1" />
• My Brush Is from Palestine, 1971.<ref name=":1" />
• Collected Works, 1978.<ref name=":1" />

Prose

• The Struggle of the Arabs of Palestine, 1964.<ref name=":1" />
• The Works of Ahmad Shakir al-Karmi: Literary, Critical and Fictional, 1964.<ref name=":1" />
• Shaykh Sa‘id al-Karmi, 1973.<ref name=":1" />

Death

He died of sepsis on 11 October 1980 in George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards and honors

• 1978: Lotus International Reward for Literature, by The Association of Asian and African Writers, it was given by the president of Angola Agostinho Neto for him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 1980: Order of Palestinian revolution, by the president of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• 1990: Order of Jerusalem for Culture, Arts and Literature, by the president of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat.<ref name=":1" />
• 2015: Order of Palestine for Culture, Science and Arts, by the president of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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External links

• Abd al-Karim al-Karmi.
• Link to poem of "We Will Return", Abu Salma, 1951.