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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Hanna Ibrahim, (November 1, 1927 - October 15, 2020) was a Palestinian poet, journalist and writer, from the village of Al-Bana'a in the Galilee, one of the Shaghour villages in Palestine.
His upbringing and education
Hanna Ibrahim was born in the village of al-Bassa in al-Shaghour in the Galilee, to a middle-ranking peasant family, and his father was a faction leader in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam movement. He completed his primary education in his village, Al-Ba'anah and Al-Rama Secondary School near Acre. He joined the Palestinian Police School, and after graduating there he worked as a law teacher. When the school was closed due to events between Arabs and Jews, he moved to work as a policeman in Acre, and remained in this job until the end of the mandate.
Affiliation with the Communist Party
In May 1948 he joined the National Liberation League in Palestine (later the Israeli Communist Party), and in September 1948 he participated in drafting and distributing the secret pamphlet that called for approval of the decision to divide Palestine into two states, and then was arrested by the Salvation Army, where he was accused of high treason and threatened He was executed, and was released upon the withdrawal of the army. After the Salvation Army withdrew, he wrote and distributed (with his comrades from the party) a leaflet calling on people to persevere and stay in their homes, whatever the circumstances.
After the 1948 war, he returned to Al-Bana’ to work with his father in agriculture, after which he worked in quarries and construction until 1961, and was involved in partisan, national and social activity. Since 1944, Hanna Ibrahim has been a member of its editorial board.
In 1967 he traveled to the Soviet Union to study philosophy, mastered Russian in addition to English, and translated several stories from Russian literature and published them in the literature of the Communist Party.
In 1969 he was appointed director of Al-Ittihad Press and then editor in Al-Ittihad newspaper, and in 1978 he was elected head of the Al-Ba’nah village council, and he was rejected by acclamation from the residents of his village to head the local council for a second time.
He was dismissed from the Israeli Communist Party by a decision of the Branch Committee in Al-Ba’nah on April 18, 1989 without any official explanation, and he continued to demand a partisan court to know the reasons for his expulsion from the party. In it, he pointed out that the socialist regimes are threatened with collapse if the ruling communist parties do not remedy the matter quickly. Despite his dismissal from the party, Hanna Ibrahim continued to defend the Marxist theory and found fault with its application.
For four years, he joined the Arab Democratic Party, which was headed by Abdel-Wahab Darawsheh, and worked as the editor-in-chief of his newspaper, Al-Diyar.
His writings and literary activity
He has a variety of poetic and prose works dealing with Palestinian sentimental, political and patriotic themes, presenting pictures about the lives of Palestinians in the countryside, and calling for social justice and peace. Most of them were published in Al-Jadeed magazine, of which Ibrahim was one of its founders.
In 1980 the National Aswar Foundation was established and unanimously elected him as its volunteer honorary president, cultural official and editor of its magazine “Al Aswar.” He remained at this site until 2000, when he resigned due to health conditions. Many students of higher education institutes (colleges and universities) have literature within their academic studies.
Publications:
The Voice of Al-Shaghour (poetry) 1981.
Anthem for the People (poetry) 1992.
A cry in a valley (selections from his poems) 2007.
wildflowers (Stories) 1972.
home wind. (Stories) 2979.
Exile in the homeland. (Stories) 1980.
wildflowers (A volume for his short stories) 2000.
The sufferings of the Holy Land. (novel) 1997.
1 Palestinian Musa. (novel) 1998.
Asfoura from Morocco. (a novel).
Memories of a young man not surprised. (Biography) 1996.
Knowledge tree. (Biography) 1996.
his death
He died on October 15, 2020 and was buried in Al-Ba'nah.
Achievements and Awards
Honoring
In 1995, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat awarded him the Jerusalem Medal for Culture, Arts and Letters. He imitated it on behalf of the Palestinian writer Ahmed Dahbour.
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