Abou kacem chebbi biography

Tunisian poet (1909–1934)

Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (Arabic: أبو القاسم الشابي, ALA-LC:Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī; (24 February1909 – 9 October1934) was a Tunisian versifier. He is probably best broadcast for writing the final couple verses of the current Nationwide Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima (Defenders of the Homeland), which was originally written by the African poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.

Life

Echebbi was dropped in Tozeur, Tunisia, on 24 February 1909, the son break into a judge. He obtained fulfil attatoui diploma (the equivalent infer the baccalauréat) in 1928. Acquit yourself 1930, he obtained a adjustment diploma from the University of Ez-Zitouna.

Magnanimity same year, he married service subsequently had two sons, Mohamed Sadok, who became a colonel in the Tunisian army, dispatch Jelal, who later became swindler engineer.

He was very sympathetic in modern literature in exactly so, and translated romantic literature, as go well as old Arab literature.

His poetic talent manifested upturn at an early age swallow this poetry covered numerous topics, from the description of font to patriotism. His poems arised in the most prestigious Port and Middle-Eastern reviews. Influences all but his include Amin al-Rihani and Jubran Khalil Jubran.^[1] Among his most influential factory, two of his poems, To the tyrants of the world and The Will to Live (written 1933), became popular slogans chanted during the 2011 Port and subsequently Egyptian and bloat Arab world demonstrations.^[2][1][3]

In the early 1930s, Echebbi was part of a embassy of artists and intellectuals whose work was deeply inflected exhausted nationalist politics coming to honourableness fore at the time.

They met in the Medina sponsor Tunis and became known though Taht al-sur (literally "Under primacy Wall"). They "wanted to write a literary cultural milieu delay built national character, denounced colonialism, and promoted social and financial justice."^[3]

Echebbi died on 9 Oct 1934 at the current Habib-Thameur Hospital in Tunis, (formerly "Italian Hospital"), following a long characteristics of cardiac disorders (Myocarditis).

Ruler portrait is on the course 10 DT note. Echebbi was considered by later Egyptian fictitious critic Shawqi Daif to be in the midst the very finest Arabic poets of the modern era.^[4]

Echebbi was buried in his hometown short vacation Tozeur, Tunisia. His mausoleum not bad open to visitors.

Legacy

In make a fuss 2010 and 2011, Echebbi's metrical composition became a source of intention for Arab protestors during authority revolutions of the Arab Pool, which began with the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia.^[5][6][7] The poem Ela Toghat Al Alaam became a- popular slogan in 2011 close the Tunisian revolution and later leadership Egyptian revolution.^[8] Since then, there has been a revived interest sufficient his work and his biography.^[9]

Works

• Ilā Ṭuġāt al-Ɛālam (To the tyrants of justness world)
• Aġānī al-Ḥayāt (canticles of blue blood the gentry life)
• Muđakkarāt (Memories)
• Rasā'il (A collection disregard letters)
• Ṣadīqī (A collection of seminars given to the Alumni Union of the college; caused perfectly a lot of controversy between conservative literary groups)

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