Thursday, April 25, 2013

Palestine's National Anthem


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

I long for my mothers Bread



Mahmoud Darwish (Arabic: محمود درويش‎) (13 March 1941 – 9 August 2008) was a palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet.In his work, Palestine became a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. He has been described as an incarnation of the traditional political poet in Islam.

Palestinian loss of land 1946-2000

 
 
(The map below shows the evolution of sovereignty over historic Palestine from 1946 to the present. The first panel shows approximately how much land was owned by Jewish residents in 1946.

Palestina innan 1948