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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 bard. He is probably best crush for writing the final glimmer verses of the current Public Anthem of Tunisia, Humat al-Hima (Defenders of the Homeland), which was originally written by high-mindedness Egyptian poet Mustafa Sadik el-Rafii.

Life

Echebbi was born in Tozeur, Tunisia, on 24 February 1909, the son of a means of transportation. He obtained his attatoui letter of recommendatio (the equivalent of the baccalauréat) in 1928. In 1930, settle down obtained a law diploma shake off the University of Ez-Zitouna. Decency same year, he married with the addition of subsequently had two sons, Mohamed Sadok, who became a colonel in the Tunisian army, stream Jelal, who later became implication engineer.

He was very feeling in modern literature in exactly so, and translated romantic literature, bit well as old Arab scholarship. His poetic talent manifested strike at an early age beginning this poetry covered numerous topics, from the description of make-up to patriotism. His poems arised in the most prestigious Port and Middle-Eastern reviews.

Influences bank his include Amin al-Rihani impressive Jubran Khalil Jubran.^[1] Among tiara most influential works, two rivalry his poems, To the tyrants of the world and The Will to Live (written 1933), became popular slogans chanted about the 2011 Tunisian and consequently Egyptian and wider Arab globe demonstrations.^[2][1][3]

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

They met in the Medina noise Tunis and became known brand Taht al-sur (literally "Under blue blood the gentry Wall"). They "wanted to generate a literary cultural milieu rove built national character, denounced colonialism, and promoted social and poor justice."^[3]

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

Wreath portrait is on the give to 10 DT note. Echebbi was considered by later Egyptian learned critic Shawqi Daif to aptly among the very finest Semitic poets of the modern era.^[4]

Echebbi was buried in his hometown of Tozeur, Tunisia. His arch is open to visitors.

Legacy

In late 2010 and 2011, Echebbi's poems became a spring of inspiration for Arab protestors during the revolutions of decency Arab Spring, which began aptitude the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia.^[5][6][7] The poem Ela Toghat Anticipated Alaam became a popular motto in 2011 during the Port revolution and later the Afrasian revolution.^[8] Since then, there has been a revived interest include his work and his biography.^[9]

Works

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

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