In the residential Tallet Al-Khayyat neighborhood of Beirut, Israel on Wednesday evening has killed renowned Lebanese poet Khatoun Salma alongside her husband. Tragic beyond words.
Writer and publisher Rasha Al-Amir mourned Khatoun in a social media post as “the gentle poet, the doting mother, the proud grandmother and the friend who died yesterday with her husband Mohammad under the rubble.”
Theatre director and playwright Yehya Jaber recalled evenings spent with the couple on their balcony. “We used to stitch memories together, recite poetry, remember our city of Tyre and love the capital, Beirut.”
He mourned her saying, “with its sharp scissors, the warplane cut down a poet of delicate Arabic.”
Khatoun Salma wasn't just a poetm she won the Arabic poetry prize on the legendary 1970s TV show Studio Al-Fann, published two collections (including Ākhir nuzalā' al-qamar in 2012), and worked as a broadcaster and volunteer.
She was not a fighter. Not a threat. May her words endure. May she rest in peace.
The apartment where Muin Bseiso and Mahmoud Darwish wrote their joint poem "Letter to an Israeli Soldier" https://mada38.appspot.com/www.madamasr.com/en/2024/10/06/feature/u/poetry-in-the-face-of-history-letter-to-an-israeli-soldier/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRE8jNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBBaVFLbG96ZjNlckQxc3U0c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrJEbjVkIzxekgLQjKaKFSBHYke-eSzYysYtFogwEnShJ9hHbE3WxuOjiE5I_aem_pMDrg5EV5FParAHwT1LPfw
during the 1982 siege of Beirut, was also bombed yesterday by the Israelis.
1,453 killed / injured in Lebanon yesterday also in a single day. Israel do not care about international law or human rights and they don't care, they get away with it
A place that still has and highly regards poets is being bombed by monsters who destroy anything beautiful humanity creates. How long are we going to let this keep happening. Why are we allowing Trump and Netanyahu to destroy our civilised world.,
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