Ibrāhīm tooqān

Ibrahim Abd al-Fattah Tuqan (; 1905 – 2 May 1941) was a Palestinian nationalist poet whose work rallied Arabs during their revolt against the British mandate. Tuqan was the brother of fellow poet Fadwa Tuqan, whom he tutored and influenced; the two belonged to the prominent Tuqan family that governed Nablus during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Biography

Tuqan was born in Nablus in 1905. He attended the al-Rashadiyya al-Gharbiyya School in western Nablus for his primary education,

In 1937, he married Sāmia ʿAbd al-Hādī, and they had one son, Jaʿfar, and one daughter, Ureib. Tuqān suffered from stomach problems throughout his life and in 1941 he died at the age of 36 from a peptic ulcer in the French Hospital in Jerusalem.

Most of his poems dealt with the Arab struggle against the British Mandate that controlled Palestine since 1922. Many Palestinians still identify with "Mawtini" along with "Fida'i" and consider the former a sort of unofficial second national anthem of their country.