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Basema Halawa (1949-1979) Palestinian poet and short story writer. She was born in Nablus and died in the USA. She has a collection of poetry entitled “Three Hymns of Poetry” and a collection of short stories entitled “Green Almonds”.
her biography
Basma Halawa was born in Nablus in 1949 and received her primary and secondary education there. Then she joined the University of Jordan, and graduated with a license from the Sociology Department in 1972. After her graduation, she worked as a secretary in the Jerusalem Municipality Library. She wrote short stories and poetry, and was published in Palestinian and Arab magazines and newspapers.
her personal life
In August 1976, she married the Egyptian poet Zine El Abidine Fouad, whom she met in the house of the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm in Cairo. From his imprisonment in Tora Prison, in 1977 he wrote her poem “Basima’s First Song”:
And Egypt, from the inside of my prison
Jenny's new look
And Nablus Tjeni in Gnaki Hammam far
Gene poem. I love you
And between you and the far country, the armies of the Jews
And between me and them rows of dogs, chains,
Guide my prisons, we cross the border
I love you green lemon and olive
It opens on the tip of our gunpowder
It opens on the tip of the gunpowder echidna.
her death
Bassima Halawa was suffering from chronic heart disease, and she died in the United States in 1979, when she was undergoing a heart operation. She recommended that she be buried in her hometown, and that the coffin be paraded through the streets of Nablus.
her literary works
Three hymns of poetry, a collection of poetry
Green almonds, a collection of short stories
I prepared a collection of short stories for printing and sent them to the publisher in Lebanon, but they were lost during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Honored posthumously
Awarded the Jerusalem Medal for Culture, Arts and Literature in 1990.
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