Palestine's National Anthem

Ibrahim Touqan was a famous nationalist poet who wrote the words of this great palestine's nationalist anthem


Ibrahim Tougan was a palestinian nationalist poet whose works rallied Arabs during their revolt against the British.
Touqan was born in Nablus, Palestine during Ottoman times. He was the brother of poetess Fadwa Touqan and he tutored and influenced her to write poetry.
Ibrahim belonged to the prominent Touqan family that governed Nablus for much of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The sword and the pen

Not talking nor quarreling

Are our symbols

Our glory and covenant

And a duty to fulfill it

Shake us

Our honor

Is an honorable cause

A raised flag

O, your beauty

In your eminence

Victorious over your enemies

My homeland

My homeland

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