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Abdul Hadi Kamel

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Jordan
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1908
  • Age: 115
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Abd al-Hadi Kamel is a Palestinian poet who was born in the village of Sebastia, one of the villages in the city of Nablus in Palestine, where the picturesque scenery and quiet nature dreamy with broad hopes. The poet Abd al-Hadi Kamel al-Hajj was born in the year 1908 A.D., on its land, and in its atmosphere, he grew up with a family that gave her life circumstances some capacity to live, and he grew up in its natural environment, seeing its sun rise and setting, playing in its alleys, and having fun in its valleys and valleys. And in her elementary school, he embarked on the path of his educational attainment. Then he moved to the city of Nablus, where he continued his studies in Al-Salihah School until he finished secondary school, but some urgent circumstances prevented him from completing his university and higher education.

his journey with life
Through his aspiration to a wide-ranging scientific life, with a wide path, he joined the Palestinian police force, where he worked in the field of wireless, and through his work he continued his academic studies in radio engineering and continued gradually until he rose to the rank of inspector until the year 1948 AD, the year of the end of the British Mandate over Palestine. During his work in the Palestinian police force, he did not stop pursuing his educational attainment and his special studies in studying the Arabic and English languages, excelling in them, and mastering the Hebrew language that he learned in a night school, then he devoted himself to learning the German language, and mastered it.

After the end of his work in the Palestinian police force, turmoil and unrest pervaded Palestine, and he was forced, like others of his generation, to leave Palestine, so he went with his family to Damascus, where he worked first in the Red Cross, and then joined the United Nations (a relief and employment agency). Refugees) with the position of inspector, then became director of the entire Damascus region and continued until he was retired in 1972 AD. From Damascus, he moved to settle in Amman in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and remained committed to his home there until God passed away on Thursday 11/28/1996 AD.

He was social by nature, benevolent, applying in his dealings with others the social values and ideals that he believed in and worked for, and he was a friend of most Palestinian poets such as the late Ibrahim Touqan, the late Abdul Rahim Mahmoud, the late Ali Al-Sartawi, and the late Abdul Karim Al-Karmi (Abu Salma). And the late Muhammad Al-Adnani, and Burhan Al-Din Al-Aboushi, and quite a few men of thought, science and literature in the arena of all Arab science.

his journey with poetry
It is not far from the right to say that Abdul Hadi Kamel's journey with poetry began when he was a young boy whose eyes devoured the beauty they saw in his rural environment, and his memory preserved everything he heard, and he became aware of all aspects of nature around him. As a child, he experienced the loss of his mother, whose tenderness, warmth, and sympathy were deprived of her death and departure from his world. But the fate that took from his world what every child needs in terms of care and affection, compensated for that with his paternal grandmother, who took care of him and took care of him. She used to sing to him poems, poems, and popular songs, warm in meaning, refined in tone, and gentle in words, which calmed his soul and summoned it until he moved to stillness and sleep. The soft, affectionate melody, the soft, sympathetic voice, and the soft, beautiful speech were all factors that prepared his conscience and the depths of his feelings to connect with the world of the beauty of poetry, which he conveyed to his atmosphere, as his grandmother pledged to him with kindness and tenderness.

And when the stage of his awareness of what was around him began, and his realization of the meanings and areas of beauty in his village, and the splendor of nature in its plains, valleys and mountains, from the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, and a sky whose stars and moon sparkling at night, he began to fill all of that and plant in the depths of himself, so he tended to silence and contemplation, so he would play With an inattentive idea of what was around him, no one knew that this absorption and contemplation were the first seed that planted poetry in himself and his conscience, and that this young boy, starting to life, would one day become one of the poets who would leave behind a heritage that immortalized them.

his death
On Thursday - 28/11/1996 AD, the poet Abd al-Hadi Kamel died in the capital, Amman, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, after he left a wealth of his modern poetic production that dealt with various aspects of national, social and human life. Abd al-Hadi Kamel was one of the people who went to their destinies, from beginning to end, driven by the irresistible feelings, emotions and sensations that consumed them and formed their lives, happiness and misery, love and hate, fear and security, anxiety and stability, health and disease, and all aspects of life that are the most beautiful and richest experience. Man goes through it from cradle to grave.

This is how Abdul Hadi Kamel was, a wonderful life experience that began as a child whose perceptions opened up, his horizons expanded, and his experiences deepened. It ended with a legacy behind him, which is his poetry collection.

 

Achievements and Awards

First prize in a poetry competition by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, where he submitted a poem entitled “Arab Unity” in 1942 AD.
First prize in a poetry competition in Syria with his poem "The Mother".
Second prize in a competition organized by the Palestinian Radio for his poem “Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi.”

 

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