Fadwa tuqan autobiography featuring

  • It is the autobiography of Fadwa Tuqan, internationally known poet from Nablus.
  • PDF | This study explores autobiographic resonances in the works of Palestinian writer and poet Fadwa Tuqan who wrote her biography in two parts.
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    Fadwa Tuqan: A Romantic Feminist Poet and Reluctant Political Witness

    Fadwa Hafez Tuqan is perhaps the most famous and well-loved woman poet in Palestine. Fadwa would have loved to have kept writing poetry about personal and social subjects, but the political earthquakes of 1948 and 1967 turned her away from this course toward politics. Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s most eminent poet, considers the “1967 earthquake” to have made her stray away from her poetic bounds. 

    In his eulogy, “Fadwa,” published in the latest issue of Al Karmel journal, Darwish masterfully captures her predicament of not being fully content with this change: “What does the poet do at the time of catastrophe? Suddenly the poet has to get out of himself to the outside, and poetry is the witness.” He adds, “She visited us in Haifa...a hostage seeking hostages, and read us her first poem about the new ordeal: ‘I will not cry.’ But she was crying like a duva. Love songs ceased to be the answer to hate and inhumani

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    Fadwa Tuqan's Answers for "the Series of Arab Notables" Book, August 1990

    Handwritten in Arabic, this archival item documents a 19-page paper featuring Fadwa Tuqan's answers on Nadim Nasser's questions for his book titled "The Series of Arab Notables"; where she answers in detail with what she documented in her memoir titled "A Mountainous Journey, a Difficult Journey: An Autobiography". 

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    Ozrail, Samar. “Khalil Tuma Collection”. Archival Inventory. 21-28 September 2021. The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.

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    Autobiographic Resonances in the Orks of Fadwa Tuqan

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