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Muhammad Munir Al-Barasi

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1911
  • Age: 110
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Muhammad Munir al-Barasi (1911 - 1990) was a Palestinian-Libyan poet of the twentieth century, and one of the Arab personalities who defended the Palestinian cause since its early days. He was born in Safed from a family that emigrated to it from Cyrenaica. He grew up there and studied until high school, then joined the Ahmadiyya University in Acre, where he graduated with a certificate equivalent to the Al-Alamiyyah certificate at Al-Azhar. Then he joined the police school in Jerusalem, graduated from it, and was employed as an investigator, then as a representative of the Public Prosecution. He quit the job and worked in the trade. In 1948, he joined one of the Palestinian Liberation Organizations, was wounded and captured, and was released in 1949. He returned to Cyrenaica in 1952, and was employed in the Ministry of Justice, where he was a public prosecutor, a member of the criminal courts, and then a first prosecutor. He has a poetry book, manuscript or missing.

Muhammad Munir al-Barasi was born in the city of Safad in the Sanjak of Acre in the Ottoman state of Beirut in 1911 AD / 1329 AH into a family whose origins go back to Libya. He memorized the Qur’an when he was young, then joined government schools and learned until high school, and soon left it. He joined the Ahmadiyya University in Acre, where he graduated with his degree in 1927. Then he joined the Police School in Jerusalem in 1929.
Work as an investigator. In 1940 he was granted the patent of the British High Commissioner to represent the Public Prosecution and accompany in criminal cases, then he left the job in 1946 to work in the field of commerce. After the Nakba in 1948, he joined one of the Palestinian Liberation Organizations and was wounded and captured. He was released in 1949. Then he immigrated to Libya, and there he passed an exam in 1952, after which he held the position of assistant attorney general in the city of Cyrenaica. He also worked as a representative of the prosecution before the civil, criminal and appeal courts. In 1955, a decision was issued appointing him as a member of the criminal courts, and then as a first-class prosecutor.

Muhammad Munir al-Barasi died in Tripoli in the year 1411 AH / 1990 AD.

Emile Yacoub said of him, “He was distinguished by his sharp temper, his excessive nervousness, in addition to his sharp intelligence, and his quick wit.” He mentioned about him in Al-Babtain Dictionary: “What was made available of his poetry is a true expression of his pride in his Arabism, his pride in her fatherhood, and her rejection of the guardianship principle. A call to resist defeat, adhere to the causes of victory, work for salvation, and attain freedom. In his poem "Thoughts of a Captive", he reveals the depth of the suffering experienced by the prisoners and the deportees from their homelands, and the activity of the imagination. He adhered to meter and rhyme in whatever poetry was available to him.

 

Achievements and Awards

"Burkan Treacherous", and its subtitle: "A true story from the heart of the Palestinian tragedy that Muhammad Munir al-Barasi experienced in Gaza City in the year 1950 AD and composed it as poetry", 1988.

 

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