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Palestinian Woman and her heroic role
Poetry - Palestine
The image of the Palestinian Woman and her Heroic Role is engraved in Palestinian Poetry.
Since the beginning of the Palestinian struggle,
Women have been in the foreground as Resisters, by demonstrating, providing relief services to families of detainees, transporting food to fighting Men, establishing charitable organizations, writing literature and?most important of all, as happened in the second Intifada?participating in armed operations. Wafa? Idris and Dareen abu `Eisha are but a few examples.
Another role, which is not less important, is the reproductive role for the survival of the threatened Palestinian breed and a sort of demographic triumph.
These roles were precisely depicted to also celebrate the great role of Women in poems.
>>>Poem by Hanan Ashrawy
?WOMEN and Things?:
Women make things grow:
Sometimes like crocus
surprised by rain, emerging fully
grown from the belly of the earth:
Others like the palm tree with
its promise postponed
rising in a slow
deliberate
spiral to the sky.
by>> Ibrahim Nasralla
?A WOMAN?:
Tired man what can you say
to a woman who perfects her presence,
and is adept at arranging the world
in the space of your perpetual ruin.
What?s to be said
to this woman, this child,
as she spontaneously fashions new flights of joy
new birth-rites
and secret paths for the winds,
a variable green for the trees
and what?s to be said to two intimate braids
which have delivered her to the succulence of fruit,
the scent of Jasmine?
It is notable that in these poems, a series of symbols and images are used to refer to Women and their roles. These images and symbols are so deep-rooted in Arabic and Palestinian culture that it is sometimes difficult for non-Arabs to understand.
In these poems there is a mention of elements of the land. ?Predominant in the poetry is the use of the images which are connected with the land of Palestine.
The Palestinian Struggle and Resistance are growing, taking every year the lives of many thousands of Palestinian Civilians: Children, Men and Women.
The image of the Palestinian Woman and her Heroic Role is engraved in Palestinian Poetry.
Since the beginning of the Palestinian struggle,
Women have been in the foreground as Resisters, by demonstrating, providing relief services to families of detainees, transporting food to fighting Men, establishing charitable organizations, writing literature and?most important of all, as happened in the second Intifada?participating in armed operations. Wafa? Idris and Dareen abu `Eisha are but a few examples.
Another role, which is not less important, is the reproductive role for the survival of the threatened Palestinian breed and a sort of demographic triumph.
These roles were precisely depicted to also celebrate the great role of Women in poems.
>>>Poem by Hanan Ashrawy
?WOMEN and Things?:
Women make things grow:
Sometimes like crocus
surprised by rain, emerging fully
grown from the belly of the earth:
Others like the palm tree with
its promise postponed
rising in a slow
deliberate
spiral to the sky.
by>> Ibrahim Nasralla
?A WOMAN?:
Tired man what can you say
to a woman who perfects her presence,
and is adept at arranging the world
in the space of your perpetual ruin.
What?s to be said
to this woman, this child,
as she spontaneously fashions new flights of joy
new birth-rites
and secret paths for the winds,
a variable green for the trees
and what?s to be said to two intimate braids
which have delivered her to the succulence of fruit,
the scent of Jasmine?
It is notable that in these poems, a series of symbols and images are used to refer to Women and their roles. These images and symbols are so deep-rooted in Arabic and Palestinian culture that it is sometimes difficult for non-Arabs to understand.
In these poems there is a mention of elements of the land. ?Predominant in the poetry is the use of the images which are connected with the land of Palestine.
The Palestinian Struggle and Resistance are growing, taking every year the lives of many thousands of Palestinian Civilians: Children, Men and Women.