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Saleh Omar Farwana ( Abu Omar ; 1936 - 2013) is a Palestinian poet and the head of the Farwana family. He was born in the city of Haifa and died in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in the Gaza Strip on March 10, 2013.
His biography
Saleh immigrated to Gaza with his family due to the Israeli occupation and the Nakba events. He lived most of his life in the Sabra neighborhood and studied high school there. He then obtained a BA in Arabic Language from Ain Shams University with a grade of very good with honors. After that, he returned to Gaza and worked as a teacher in UNRWA schools (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) and then became a director there.
During his career, he supervised many literary appreciation courses for primary and secondary school teachers, and then devoted himself to literary writing. Farwana is considered one of the most prominent poets at the national level, and has published many national poetry collections.
The Palestinian Writers and Authors Association in Gaza City published a poetry collection entitled “Palestinian Vocabulary” in 2004 and the second part in 2011 , which consists of 78 poems expressing the Palestinian political reality in light of the events that occurred there, the most important of which is the Al-Aqsa Intifada , which is the name given to the second part.
It is noteworthy that his eldest son, Omar Farwana, was a gynecologist and worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University in Gaza , and was its dean. He was assassinated along with his wife, children and grandchildren on October 15, 2023, during an air strike carried out by the Israeli Air Force on his home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City , during the Israeli response to Operation Flood of al-Aqsa .
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